Who said that dissent supports terrorism?
I sense a disturbing lack of patriotism within you!
The DoD is researching what it would take to ban cellphone cameras at the gates of military installations, as I type this. (Good luck with that, I had fun buying a new cellphone that DIDN'T have a built-in camera) The unit I was assigned to wouldn't even let calculator watches inside, let alone thumbdrives and cellphones. Pagers could only be worn by the express written permission of the unit commander, and usually they were owned by the unit for mission alert purposes, or "loaners" for expectant fathers.
Per NSA guidance, furbies are forbidden as well.
(No, I'm not kidding. Try bringing one into a SCIF.)
Yea, back at DISA, camera phones were forbidden from the base. Normal cell phones were banned from the specific building. Ditto USB devices, MP3 players, etc. You pretty much had to get permission from the FSO for ANY electrionics. Not that anything'd using the electromagnetic spectrum would get through the walls. The amount of copper mesh shielding set in concrete is staggering.
Except under very specific circumstances, it is forbidden under penalty of law to connect a secret or TS machine onto a public network. The file sharing part of the report is mostly FUD. Sure, you could lose sensitive but unclassified or FOUO material, which is a concern but not that much of a threat to national security. VA seems to do that once a week anywho without filesharing programs.
Yup, that's my office. I do have a nifty vault door though.
I managed to weasel an office outself the SCIF when I was doing frequency management work for a G6. Between the chaplains and JAG. I liked to say I had God on one side, and the law on the other. My CO didn't think it was funny for some reason. Probably because his office was at the TOC. Did only a portion of my work inside the SCIF, thankfully. I didn't care for the windowless bunker thing for months at a time, it sucks. The nifty thing is that I got issued thermite grenades and an extra weapon for my office safe. You'd THINK they'd have been smarter than to hand someone like me thermite, but the US Army was never known for its intelligence...
Just for giggles I figured I'd find an older Motorola STU-II or STU-III for my office at home, to sit next to my beloved SAC alert phone and remind me of the good old days in my windowless SCIF. I didn't even want the secure key, just the base and handset to run on unsecured two-wire POTS. Good luck, it appears Uncle Sam simply destroys them when they're declared obsolete. I can, however, buy an Iridium Satellite Cell Phone, without the encryption sleeve. The DoD will even let me have a contract to lease bandwidth (not cheap)!
Re STU's, you know, you can find a decent boat anchor at any marine supply store. Much more useful.
I wouldn't mind having a couple used Echo model SINCGARS. Handy things, be great for backpacking. I think I could get a training fill, sans KEK, to do freq hopping too.
Cameras now have lenses the size of a pinhole and can be hidden in nearly anything, and can be bought on eBay as such, in bulk, shipped from Hong Kong. Unless they literally scan for electronic devices, they're not going to get a determined malicious sort. Microelectronics are here, and soon they'll be nanoscale. Can't put that genie back in the bottle, so they'll have to actually innovate and allow technology to advance for security at entries. "Rules" aren't going to help much.
Uh yea. The CI folks might disagree with ya.
Course, you get caught doing espionage inside a SCIF, you disappear. They send ya to prison for failing to report crypto violations. You don't want to know what happens to folks who intentionally compromise US crypto systems. You're better off never born than to be on the wrong end of an NSA investigation. 'em folks are creepy and downright scary.
