I don't think many politicians would bother to use anything this secure as their records would be kept and likely accessible after a court order. Congress doesn't believe it needs to work this hard. They are above the law, exempt really, in many ways. Businesses with valuable trade secrets are a great target market for this technology.
I don't think many politicians would bother to use anything this secure...
The military might.
Currently, the Air Force uses iPads, but not for classified, due to the requirement to connect to Apple servers to upgrade the OS (they will not supply a disc, as Microsoft does for our classified Windows boxes).
All of our pilots carry and use them for non-classified publications, but it would be nice to have something that Secret could be loaded onto for missions.
So the Air Force is completely incompetent when dealing with IT. Good to know.
Here's a hint - you can download the IPSW from Apple and manually update (after testing and validation), and you can block devices you own from automatically grabbing it from Apple with MDM profiles. You then use an OS X Server running Software Update service, and configure it to be the update proxy in the same MDM profile. When you approve the update, you enable it on your update proxy, and the devices update from YOU, and not
Too complex for politicians (Score:2)
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I don't think many politicians would bother to use anything this secure...
The military might.
Currently, the Air Force uses iPads, but not for classified, due to the requirement to connect to Apple servers to upgrade the OS (they will not supply a disc, as Microsoft does for our classified Windows boxes).
All of our pilots carry and use them for non-classified publications, but it would be nice to have something that Secret could be loaded onto for missions.
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Uh, you realize that it's simple to download and do a mass deployment internally right?
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So the Air Force is completely incompetent when dealing with IT. Good to know.
Here's a hint - you can download the IPSW from Apple and manually update (after testing and validation), and you can block devices you own from automatically grabbing it from Apple with MDM profiles. You then use an OS X Server running Software Update service, and configure it to be the update proxy in the same MDM profile. When you approve the update, you enable it on your update proxy, and the devices update from YOU, and not