is such a hassle it wouldn’t really pass in any company

Hate to tell you, this is now the norm. Right now, today, thousands of corporate travelers!

Company creates a travel laptop, perhaps even just a completely empty kiosk laptop. Corporate traveler downloads critical data to the laptop in an enclave (like a presentation). They have a two-factor token with them. If they need to get back to the corporate network for whatever reason, they use remote desktop software and no data is stored on the local device. They’re given policies telling them that if the computer is out of their possession, or view at any time, that the device is not to be used whatsoever afterwards. Contact security and let them deal with it.

When the traveler comes back to the mothership, laptop is checked into IT, it’s completely wiped.

Does remote desktop software suck? Yeah. It’s better than the alternative though

Mosh plus tmux is amazing.

Identity is a human right, digital systems should NOT have the power to revoke your identity.

It is of critical importance to design digital identity systems that ensure the privacy of citizens as well as protecting them from issuer corruption. Unfortunately, what Europe’s and USA’s public sectors are currently developing does not offer such basic protections. We aim to solve this issue and propose a method for untraceable selective disclosure and privacy preserving revocation of digital credentials, using the unique homomorphic characteristics of second order Elliptic Curves and Boneh-Lynn-Shacham (BLS) signatures. Our approach ensures that users can selectively reveal only the necessary credentials, while protecting their privacy across multiple presentations. We also aim to protect users from issuer corruption, by making it possible to apply a threshold for revocation to require collective agreement among multiple revocation issuers.

The person your talking with is letting perfect be the enemy of good.

https://www.privacyguides.org/en/basics/vpn-overview/

This is a really good review about the actual tradeoffs involved.

It’s like crazy ex syndrome. They block you, but if you block them back in reciprocating fashion now your the bad person.

If it’s world war II, and you’re thinking about who to make your overall theater commander, You’re going to put a lot of factors into that, including is this person available.

It wouldn’t make sense to make general Patton your absolute commander, and then have him be unavailable for 3 months.

Double so if they’ve already refused orders

That’s a good point, and that’s what a long-term CEO could fight for. But this executive before they became CEO was given a test, could they do this difficult executive thing, and they didn’t. If you’re the board of directors, is this the person you promote to CEO? They’re already giving you friction before they become the CEO

I’m not apologizing. I think this person would make a terrible CEO. For a variety of reasons. The biggest is the fact that they’re going around on a campaign besmirching the company they tried to become the CEO of. That’s an Elon musk move

That’s a really good point. That’s a good test of an executive, if they can’t do what the board needs… They aren’t a good fit either

I hate to say it, but when we’re talking about a leadership position, that hasn’t been filled yet, looking at somebody’s ability to be consistent leader is a factor.

If memory serves this executive was out for treatment, when the previous CEO stepped down in the replacement was chosen.

They simply were not available. It’s hard to be a part-time CEO

Feels like a job for the coast guard

Though I don’t think it’s the job of the French police, and the French Coast guard to keep people prisoner in France.

Yes I know technically it’s a border crossing and they have to register, but from a humanitarian perspective people trying to leave your country seems like something you should just let happen. Besides it shouldn’t be illegal in France to go swimming, or even to go for a boat ride.

I also would love these prints. Great deep dive! Thank you for sharing this video!

It will add some barriers, but it will not actually prevent you. It is still your phone you could uninstall whatever app they’re using.

I completely agree, there is value in being digitally disconnected, detoxing if you will. Using a work profile, and turning it off when you’re not working so you don’t see any notifications is a great way to do that, if you want to use dnd mode great.

$50 is a lot for a NFC tag that triggers DND mode…

Systemd is a conspiracy

Possibly. But I’m also definitely lazy, and my voice to text automatically censors. And I don’t feel like changing it. So f*** it

Good point. But the companies are at least controlling the data pathway, being aware of it, signing off on it, doing it for their benefit.

And I imagine at least for the US companies, every company they exfiltrate data to, is contractually obligated to keep their data private

I’ve worked extensively in the Enterprise environment, and data exfiltration is a massive concern for any company with intellectual property, which is most of them.

Having data leak at all, another vector for exfiltration, is a huge huge risk.

Heck, I’d be surprised if Microsoft itself let its own developers run Total recall

Not really

For the retail market, most people just have phones not computers anymore. Microsoft has already lost The Battle of Windows phone.

For the Enterprise market none of this recent b******* is going to enterprise customers anyway, they would have group policies and volume licensing deals to avoid all the b*******.

For those poor retail customers who still run Windows, they suffer, but they’re minor, not significant