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US senate is slowly catching up to me

 
 
BillRM
 
Reply Fri 30 Nov, 2018 09:41 am
The US Senate will add security to their computers to the same level I been doing now for over ten years.

Better late then never I guess.

Quote:

https://www.zdnet.com/article/us-senate-computers-will-use-disk-encryption/

The US Senate will enable disk encryption on all Senate computers as a basic security measure that will make it harder for spies or criminals to extract sensitive data from stolen Senate staff PCs or hard drives.

The decision was taken last month by the Senate Committee on Rules and Administration, which instructed the Senate Sergeant at Arms (SAA) to begin the data encryption process.

"I applaud these efforts as this new common-sense cybersecurity policy will better protect sensitive Senate data from those who might wish to compromise it," said Oregon Democrat Senator Ron Wyden, the one who initially pushed the Committee to implement this measure over the summer.

"This new policy will make it much harder for any would-be spy or criminal who steals a Senate computer to access Senate data," Sen. Wyden added. "This is particularly important for laptops, which are more vulnerable to foreign government surveillance when Senate staff take them home or on work-related travel."

Details about the exact timeline or progress of the disk encryption process have not been made available, but Senators and their staff should hope this doesn't go as bad as the adoption of multi-factor authentication. A government report published in September revealed that only 11 percent of the Department of State's devices used multi-factor authentication.



Footnote I strongly suggest that they do not used bit locker or any other hardware encrypt that had not been check out by NSA.
 
rosborne979
 
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Reply Fri 30 Nov, 2018 10:00 am
@BillRM,
The NSA created some of the worst exploits out there. And those are just the ones we know about which have escaped into the wild. It's reasonable to assume there are others we are not aware of.
BillRM
 
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Reply Fri 30 Nov, 2018 10:15 am
@rosborne979,
rosborne979 wrote:

The NSA created some of the worst exploits out there. And those are just the ones we know about which have escaped into the wild. It's reasonable to assume there are others we are not aware of.


True but I am assuming that NSA would not placed any weakness in a program that the senate who approved their budget will be using.

For the rest of us I would suggest using open source programs that had been audit by non government experts.
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