The European Commission is reportedly tightening internal security guidance for staff travelling to the United States, placing the country on a par with China, Iran, and other sensitive destinations i
Not exactly a huge surprise as Switzerland is not part of the EU. I bet they don’t follow India or Australia’s government policies either! Such savages.
Switzerland has no shortage of cyber professionals, so either hardened and encrypted devices, or no one traveling with direct access to confidential data via their devices, likely both, is the obvious situation here.
Hardened and encrypted devices don’t matter for shit when you’re forced to unlock them. Not having direct access to confidential data like you proposed is much better. But better not even have a way of accessing it that could be detected.
… What makes you think the US in its current state gives a single fuck about any convention, much less one named after the capital of another country? They’re exploring ways to circumvent their own constitution so they could send dissidents to CECOT for “terrorism” even if they’re citizens.
The Vienna Convention is what the US uses constantly to keep their people insulated. Which is why there’s a nice diplomatic line at Dulles, and no CBP officer would mess with a diplomatic passport holder from any county.
The Vienna Convention is what the US uses constantly to keep their people insulated.
Normally, yes. But at this point I wouldn’t be surprised to see the orange oaf ignore it and then try to muscle other countries into still respecting it when American diplomats are on the line.
Hell, I’m hoping that won’t happen. But personally, I’d be a bit skittish about traveling to the US right now as a diplomat. I’d also be very skittish about traveling to the US as a non-diplomat.
Is it? Obvious, I mean? To IT guys, sure. But I know from experience that IT guidelines are usually just another set of rules to be broken by users, most of the time on purpose or out of (willful) ignorance 😅
It doesn’t help that plenty of places still follow old IT guidelines that are bad, so they all get lumped together. E.g. change password every 45 days, can’t BT the last 10, must have 4 characters different, and we don’t have a password manager.
Not exactly a huge surprise as Switzerland is not part of the EU. I bet they don’t follow India or Australia’s government policies either! Such savages.
Switzerland has no shortage of cyber professionals, so either hardened and encrypted devices, or no one traveling with direct access to confidential data via their devices, likely both, is the obvious situation here.
Hardened and encrypted devices don’t matter for shit when you’re forced to unlock them. Not having direct access to confidential data like you proposed is much better. But better not even have a way of accessing it that could be detected.
Yes, and the Vienna Convention is what outlines that Swiss or any other country’s diplomatic officials don’t have to do that with work devices.
… What makes you think the US in its current state gives a single fuck about any convention, much less one named after the capital of another country? They’re exploring ways to circumvent their own constitution so they could send dissidents to CECOT for “terrorism” even if they’re citizens.
Mutually assured destruction.
The Vienna Convention is what the US uses constantly to keep their people insulated. Which is why there’s a nice diplomatic line at Dulles, and no CBP officer would mess with a diplomatic passport holder from any county.
But hey, anything’s possible anymore.
Normally, yes. But at this point I wouldn’t be surprised to see the orange oaf ignore it and then try to muscle other countries into still respecting it when American diplomats are on the line.
Hell, I’m hoping that won’t happen. But personally, I’d be a bit skittish about traveling to the US right now as a diplomat. I’d also be very skittish about traveling to the US as a non-diplomat.
OK, well, when that happens you let me know. This is honestly such an unlikely thing.
So is slapping all your major trade partners with tariffs, but look what happened.
I’m not saying it’s a certainty, but it’s now a possibility that must be considered whereas previously it would’ve been unthinkable.
Is it? Obvious, I mean? To IT guys, sure. But I know from experience that IT guidelines are usually just another set of rules to be broken by users, most of the time on purpose or out of (willful) ignorance 😅
It doesn’t help that plenty of places still follow old IT guidelines that are bad, so they all get lumped together. E.g. change password every 45 days, can’t BT the last 10, must have 4 characters different, and we don’t have a password manager.
Or even worse, password field doesn’t work with paste.