OK lets do a closer security analysis.
What is the asset at risk here? - The data on the hard drive
What is the risk? - Disclosure
So lets take a deperimeterized approach, what is the smallest security perimeter that secures the assets? - Round the hard drive.
So one solution that many of us use for Black Hat/DEFCON is to have a second laptop frame for those conferences and buy a new hard drive for each visit that is removed and shredded before return.
You could also use Linux and one of the encrypting file systems.
-----Original Message-----
From: ietf-bounces@xxxxxxxx on behalf of Dearlove, Christopher (UK)
Sent: Wed 3/11/2009 5:44 AM
To: Dean Willis
Cc: IETF Discussion
Subject: RE: Terminal room at IETF74
>> Putting aside whether I could buy such a machine, and assuming
>> taking it out of the US would be OK policy-wise (that I'd have
>> to check, I suspect it's within the letter but not the spirit
>> of the policy) as soon as it's outside the US it's a company
>> machine I couldn't take back in. Puchasing a laptop per trip
>> is not very economic.
>
>Although many consider the UK to be verging on a socialist state
>(don't worry, the US is gaining on you), I wasn't aware that simply
>arriving in the country with personal property automatically assigned
>such personal property to one's employer. That's pretty scary!
I was assuming I wanted my employer to pay. If they do, they own the
machine. Right now buying a new computer isn't my plan, cheap though
they may be in the US.
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