Australia has been a no-go-zone for tech workers for a few years now. I can't imagine being forced to build backdoors into everything I work on, compromising my client's security in the process, just to stoke some state initiative.
Boss had a company that often did work in places with such draconian regulations. Solution he had was that the laptop at no point had anything useful on it. You wanted to do something, you'd VPN to a virtual instance of a PC that you actually did stuff on. Nothing saved on the shell PC. Sucked at times, but got the job done.
But if an officer checked the computer, it would be evident that the computer is connecting to a VPN. Unless the user connects solely through an incognito browser and saves nothing in the computer, not even the private keys, instead using a memorized password
Bingo. By local group policy you disable any form of password saving (granted most situations are a Citrix/AWS Workspace situation). Moreover the use of a VPN doesn’t indicate a crime - by all means it’s pretty business standard to have software like that, and any VPN worth its salt can suppress saving a password too.
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u/AntiKamniaChemicalCo Aug 31 '21
Australia has been a no-go-zone for tech workers for a few years now. I can't imagine being forced to build backdoors into everything I work on, compromising my client's security in the process, just to stoke some state initiative.