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This feature really should ask you to commit to your duration of travel beforehand. It's no use if you can be compelled to readd the data.
A more accurate reality: https://xkcd.com/538/
At, say, the US/Canadian border? No, not accurate nor realistic at all.
He didn't get hit with a wrench, but rather got all his stuff seized by the FBI.
Counter: the border agent asks "are you hiding any information from us?". answer yes, and they get you to disable travel mode. answer no, and you just committed a felony.
Based on this wording, it sounds like a team admin might be able to enforce travel mode such that the user can't disable it. >If you’re a team administrator, you have total control over which secrets your employees can travel with. You can turn Travel Mode on and off for your team members, so you can ensure that company information stays safe at all times. In which case, you as a user literally can't access the infor…
What would they do, do you think, if said third party was a foreign citizen—of a country with no deportation treaty with the US—and upon getting the person you have in hand to call them (presumably under duress), they just said "I don't negotiate with hostile governments" and hung up?
Then you could say: "Even if I agreed to give you my password, you wouldn't be able to unlock my device with it for another 24 hours".
This feature really should ask you to commit to your duration of travel beforehand. It's no use if you can be compelled to readd the data.
Setting GPS locations where the vault can be readded to your device and disallowing it everywhere else would be good.
The right solution to this problem is, when traveling, always answer "no" to "may I search your laptop?" It sucks, and it many mean a lot of hassle ranging from confiscated equipment to being held at the border to being refused entry, but this is just one of the new risks of travel. Border security only gets away with this because people say yes. Companies need to make clear to their employees (and the public) that s…
Many US workers are not citizens. Your solution would mean losing both their job and home if they were stopped on their way back into the US. A better solution is to not allow people to travel with anything that would be catastrophic if lost. My former employer would give employees loaner devices for travel to certain countries.
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What lie has been told?
From what I understand, it removes everything but ones marked as safe therefore you're not hiding anything. It's like moving your private files from a device before travelling, you're not hiding anything you just didn't bring it.
Is travelling with confidential data really necessary? Wouldn't it make more sense for me to have a 'empty' notebook and store my data out of harm's way (but accessible via a VPN).
Yes.
The whole travel with a clean laptop isn't feasible beyond a simple "access data remotely via VPN" scenario.
Company laptops are often so full of custom software (bootloaders & up) that it's impossible to replicate/reinstall a working environment over VPN.
They're crazy sensitive: e.g. On ours if you go too long away from the core network it freaks out and locks everything down. And recovering from that...well:
I've literally had IT tell me that my options are 1) Fly to the nearest office and connect to core network 2) They fedex me a fresh laptop that has recently been connected to the core.
The implementation looks sound, and it's easy to use. Props to Agile Bits for making this feature a priority. So this is great! -- I think. My only concern is that if the authorities are already suspicious of you, and find no password vaults (or practically nothing in your password vault), they may just detain you until you reveal what you haven't disclosed to them. There's clearly a technical solution to the problem…