RE: [Fed-Talk] New MacBooks - can camera come out?

Subject: RE: [Fed-Talk] New MacBooks - can camera come out?

From: Lee Zimmerman <email@hidden>

Date: Thu, 12 Jan 2006 07:51:41 -0800

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Folks,

It seems to me that there is some over reacting here based on the (perhaps overly restrictive) ADP security policies of a few DoD organizations. I work at the Navy's lead lab for C4ISR R&D - a 4500 person organization doing a range of unclassified to TS/SCI work located on a military base in San Diego. I carry a cell phone with a camera and use my PowerBook with functioning 802.11b every day in my office and around the campus (obviously not in the secure lab spaces). Current Navy command and control doctrine is based on reach back and collaboration - often involving cameras placed on Secret level computers for desktop VTC. Heck, we regularly place cameras on TS/SCI systems in SCIFs for desktop VTC, so accrediting a system with a built-in camera for use in a classified lab is not that hard. In summary, because most Federal employees are not doing classified work most of the time and because cameras can be accredited for classified systems, including a camera on the new Apple laptops does not prevent them from being sold to most government and DoD organizations.

Lee

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