Switzerland, however, seems to be taking a less confrontational approach. The message seems clear: Switzerland has no interest in provoking Washington.
WTF? Simply not taking your regular phone is “confrontational” and a provocation?!?
Everything is provocative if your dick is orange.
Good way to plant false information imo. Say this is definately really your phone so that when they spy on you then you can feed them all kinds of nonsense.
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.
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.
Big mistake.
It doesn’t mention what the current directive is. Swiss government – being common people doing a special job, compared to EU officials – are usually more practical in such things.
What precisely can be stolen from those officials in the first place? Oh no, you’ve discovered our large banking system with rich people money!
Normal countries should start doing this too just for US visitors so we can find out who really killed JFK.
https://youtu.be/unPpGww2IBc - We think the CIA killed JFK because of Satire and Homophobia
It would be the Panama papers all over again
The concern is that even encrypted communicatons, intercepted via the heavily Chinese-tapped US telecommunications company networks, can be used to gain access to other systems. Unencrypted data, sure, that’s a legit concern. China can likely read every SMS sent to any US phone number and no one seems to care at all. Things like downgrade attacks, other man-in-the-middle attacks, and skimming SMS 2FA codes are likely possible with poorly defended systems.
If the data it’s encrypted, then it’s more about the paranoia that China is collecting everything and planning to decrypt later with quantum processors. Not exactly a huge and urgent worry, but one day they will crack how to decrypt what they collect and will have a record of everything said online.
