Audit Giants Advise Executives to Use Burner Phones in Hong Kong Amid Data Security Fears - BNN Breaking (bnn.network)

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[-] jet@hackertalks.com 9 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

The title is a little sensational.

Corporate travel policies to China and China controlled regions, for my entire adult life, have always been any data that goes into China is going to be exfiltrated. So clean devices for travel, no sensitive information on those devices, those devices get refreshed when they get back. And not plugged into the main network.

This is over multiple international corporations, with headquarters in different countries. Many countries, China included, use their national security and spying apparatus for business advantage for national companies. China's just a little more enthusiastic than everyone else

The difference between clean devices for travel, and burner devices, is you're not trying to be anonymous. You're just minimizing the amount of data you're exposing. Burner implies people attempting to be anonymous, which isn't a great idea for a corporations, especially in China. Many corporations have a fiduciary duty to record their communications, so a burner device would imply they're trying to circumvent their compliance obligations, which they're not trying to do.

[-] cyd@lemmy.world 4 points 10 months ago

The significance is that Hong Kong used to be exempt from such requirements, because it was viewed as sufficiently separate from China. No longer.

[-] pousserapiere@lemmy.world 2 points 10 months ago

I concur. It's not only China, depending on the company's market it can also be the US, Russia and probably others.

[-] Ghostalmedia@lemmy.world 9 points 10 months ago

Those two men look normal sized, not gigantic.

[-] PainInTheAES@lemmy.world 5 points 10 months ago

No no, those men audit giants. There's a lot of fraudsters out there telling tall tales.

[-] Marsupial@quokk.au 8 points 10 months ago

Why is the articles photo of some like Italian ice skaters?

[-] Macaroni_ninja@lemmy.world 6 points 10 months ago

They are the Liu Brothers, born in Hungary (that's the hungarian flag btw) and skating for the Hungarian olympic team. They decided to switch countries and represent China from now on.

Here is an article with some more detailed info: link

[-] wurzelgummidge@lemmy.world 4 points 10 months ago

American accounting forms only hire executives who are skilled at skating on thin ice

[-] RubberElectrons@lemmy.world 4 points 10 months ago

Lol I was wondering the same

[-] Brkdncr@sh.itjust.works 4 points 10 months ago

This has been the norm for the past 15 years.

[-] naturalgasbad@lemmy.ca 1 points 10 months ago

Rich multinational consulting firms and their solutions of "just lay off people bro" coupled with millions of dollars of consulting fees. Oh no, what a terrible loss to society!

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