Laptop stolen from Pelosi's office during storming of U.S. Capitol, says aide

Post by ConcernedCoder » Fri, Jan 08, 2021, 8:59 PM UTC

gizmo686 wrote: post #408

whalesalad wrote: post #136

> belonged to a conference room and was used for presentations Yikes. My first though was - oh this should be no big deal chances are there are good policies in place for laptops that go home with people. Then I realized it is a shared/central machine which means it probably has the most effed up and relaxed security in the fleet, post-it notes with passwords taped to the palm rests, and god knows what else. IT depar…

IT should be able to revoke any access the machine has, so the only compromise would be what was already on the machine; which would be the case regardless of security policy, as they could just access the harddrive directly regardless of OS security policy. In practice, it wouldn't suprise me if that computer was locally storing passwords that were not specific to that machine, which might mean needing to revoke a b…

Post by rurp » Fri, Jan 08, 2021, 8:59 PM UTC

gizmo686 wrote: post #386

snoshy wrote: post #331

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Seems safe to assume that the Speaker of the House and her aides would have access to classified national intelligence that might not be open to the world, and would be valuable in it's own right. Things like progress and updates with Covid vaccines, their deployment plans, and lack of security around them would make information like it ripe for the black market and adversary governments in these times.

Access to classified intelligence means that they are allowed to enter a secure room/facility and view the material. They still should not be taking said material out into an unclassified environment.

Post by csense » Fri, Jan 08, 2021, 8:59 PM UTC

emayljames wrote: post #407

jjkaczor wrote: post #149

Myself, I would be more worried about any keyloggers, or wifi/cell interception, "man-in-the-middle" devices being left behind...

I know someone who had their government laptop taken from them (then they came back with it), when going through customs of another country. The first thing their bosses told them was do not turn it on . The laptop had very sophisticated encryption and I would assume they just straight out destroyed it. They got an exact replacement.

Post by adamc » Fri, Jan 08, 2021, 9:01 PM UTC

gizmo686 wrote: post #386

snoshy wrote: post #331

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Seems safe to assume that the Speaker of the House and her aides would have access to classified national intelligence that might not be open to the world, and would be valuable in it's own right. Things like progress and updates with Covid vaccines, their deployment plans, and lack of security around them would make information like it ripe for the black market and adversary governments in these times.

Access to classified intelligence means that they are allowed to enter a secure room/facility and view the material. They still should not be taking said material out into an unclassified environment.

Post by Matthias247 » Fri, Jan 08, 2021, 9:01 PM UTC

simonh wrote: post #153

whalesalad wrote: post #136

> belonged to a conference room and was used for presentations Yikes. My first though was - oh this should be no big deal chances are there are good policies in place for laptops that go home with people. Then I realized it is a shared/central machine which means it probably has the most effed up and relaxed security in the fleet, post-it notes with passwords taped to the palm rests, and god knows what else. IT depar…

If it’s a shared machine for projecting notes, chances are it has nothing stored locally.