Consumerization of IT–How to address this
Bring Your Own Device or Consumerization of IT are fairly hot themes in a lot of customer organizations. When I talk to customers, there are typically different reactions, once we bring this up. Some tell us, that it is not part of their strategy; some tell us that they plan to do it but that they have a hard time figuring out, how to secure such an environment; very, very ...
10 Years of Trustworthy Computing at Microsoft
Before joining Microsoft a little bit more than 10 years ago, I ran a team at PricewarehoureCoopers on e-Business Risk Management – classical security consulting in the Internet bubble time. When I announced that I will leave PwC and join Microsoft, I got interesting reactions (and remember, this was 2001). Mainly they were along two lines: Oh, you are joining a desktop company? ...
10 Reasons to migrate off Windows XP
I would like you to sit back, close your eyes and think about the year 2001. Think about how you used technology back then, how you used the Internet. Now, let’s take it a little bit further back in history and think of the year 2000. Just after we realized that the Year-2000-Problem was handled very well by the industry. How you used technology, how you used the Internet, the ...
Office 365 Becomes First and Only Major Cloud Productivity Service to Comply With Leading EU and U.S. Standards for Data Protection and Security
A long title but this was the title of the official press statement yesterday. Compliance is always a key question in the public cloud space. Therefore it is very important for us that we now achieved three things: Office 365 is compliant with EU Model Clauses, Data Processing Agreements and ISO 27001 among other standards. Office 365 is the first and only major ...
Notebook searches at a country border By Roger Halbheer, on June 14th, 2010 I guess you still know the discussions a while ago where it was made public that notebooks can be searched without suspicion when you cross the border to the US. Actually the truth is, that this can happen everywhere as far as I understand. To be clear: I am not a lawyer, I am an engineer. However, when I discussed this with a lawyer, he explained to me that anything I carry with me when I cross a border can be searched – something we got used to, no? The notebook is just part of the “anything” in the statement above.
So, the nervousness is really about the customs officer keeping a notebook and getting access to the data, which is scary but again, is this any different to carrying paper across the border – except for the sheer volume but basically if you carry confidential documents across any country’s border the customs officer can search you and have a look at your paper.
So far so good but it seems that some customs officers took their time when they actually wanted to search a notebook – a few months until an year. They simply kept it. Now a court in the US ruled that this is illegal: Judge limits DHS laptop border searches
So, while the search at entry is still acceptable due to the points I made above, the confiscation of a computer for a longer period of time seems to be illegal. Will be interesting to see how this will develop.
Roger
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- Council of Europe – Octopus Conference (Cooperation against Cybercrime) Day 2
- Legal Challenges of International Business and the Cloud
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