Posted on 03/26/2014 1:00:18 PM PDT by Jim Robinson
Moscow — Russian government officials have swapped their iPads for Samsung tablets to ensure tighter security, the telecoms minister told news agencies on Wednesday. Journalists spotted that ministers at a cabinet meeting were no longer using Apple tablets, and minister Nikolai Nikiforov confirmed the changeover "took place not so long ago."
He said the ministers' new Samsungs were "specially protected devices that can be used to work with confidential information."
"Some of the information at government meetings is confidential in nature and these devices fully meet these demands and have gone through the strictest system of certification."
Nikiforov denied that Russia was clamping down on US technology in response to Western sanctions imposed over its takeover of Ukraine's Crimea peninsula.
"We are not proposing any sanctions," he said. But he did mention reading reports that "American special services... will significantly increase the volume of information they intercept (which) of course causes serious concern to many governmental clients."
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Exactly so. If anyone is interested, I can dig around and find the link to a really good white paper that discusses that aspect of Apple tablet and phone security, vs. that of the Android devices, in the context of mobile device management software. The short technical summary is that Apple is mo’ betta’.
I would like it ... in order to keep it for future reference.
It looks like it has been updated - I’m glad we had this chat!
https://securosis.com/research/publication/defending-data-on-ios
Thanks for looking that up. That’s good reference material.
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