Source: National Cyber Security – Produced By Gregory Evans
When Scott Shaff was contracted by the U.S. Army to work on a military intelligence surveillance project in Afghanistan in 2013, he knew he needed to keep his country’s secrets carefully protected. But he says the Army didn’t use an exactly high-tech fix to ensure pictures couldn’t be taken by his laptop and later leaked. Rather, officials physically yanked the camera from his company-issued Dell. No bother. “The enemy is watching, and if there’s GPS data embedded in every image, every picture you take could get you in trouble,” says Shaff, who says he also had the camera in his smartphone’s camera disabled. It isn’t just the James Bonds of the world who are seeing government or military agencies crack down on the use of cameras, computers and other digital devices in the workplace. The CEO of a well-known New York-based tech company recently hired a specialist to pull out the cameras in all his laptops and phones, according to an employee there. Then there was one of the biggest hacking scandals in years, which led Sony to shut down all its computers and left employees using just pen and paper for days. Other firms are now using white lists to vet email and IP addresses, […]
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