Traveling Light in a Time of Digital Thievery

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http://www.nytimes.com/2012/02/11/technology/electronic-security-a-worry-=
in-an-age-of-digital-espionage.html?pagewanted=3D1&ref=3Dtechnology

By NICOLE PERLROTH
The New York Times
February 10, 2012

SAN FRANCISCO -- When Kenneth G. Lieberthal, a China expert at the=20
Brookings Institution, travels to that country, he follows a routine=20
that seems straight from a spy film.

He leaves his cellphone and laptop at home and instead brings =E2=80=9Clo=
aner=E2=80=9D=20
devices, which he erases before he leaves the United States and wipes=20
clean the minute he returns. In China, he disables Bluetooth and Wi-Fi,=20
never lets his phone out of his sight and, in meetings, not only turns=20
off his phone but also removes the battery, for fear his microphone=20
could be turned on remotely. He connects to the Internet only through an=20
encrypted, password-protected channel, and copies and pastes his=20
password from a USB thumb drive. He never types in a password directly,=20
because, he said, =E2=80=9Cthe Chinese are very good at installing key-lo=
gging=20
software on your laptop.=E2=80=9D

What might have once sounded like the behavior of a paranoid is now=20
standard operating procedure for officials at American government=20
agencies, research groups and companies that do business in China and=20
Russia =E2=80=94 like Google, the State Department and the Internet secur=
ity=20
giant McAfee. Digital espionage in these countries, security experts=20
say, is a real and growing threat =E2=80=94 whether in pursuit of confide=
ntial=20
government information or corporate trade secrets.

=E2=80=9CIf a company has significant intellectual property that the Chin=
ese and=20
Russians are interested in, and you go over there with mobile devices,=20
your devices will get penetrated,=E2=80=9D said Joel F. Brenner, formerly=
 the=20
top counterintelligence official in the office of the director of=20
national intelligence.

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