<story><title>Uber remotely locked down offices during police raids, shutting off computers</title><url>https://www.bloomberg.com/view/articles/2018-01-12/uber-looks-great-when-the-police-barge-in</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>Spivak</author><text>I honestly don&amp;#x27;t see a problem with this. If it weren&amp;#x27;t for the fact that it&amp;#x27;s a company this this site hates it would be hailed as a marvel innovation against states that are increasingly cavalier about disrespecting people&amp;#x27;s digital rights and privacy. If the police have all the proper warrants there&amp;#x27;s no reason they can&amp;#x27;t seize the locked servers and workstations and compel them to unlock them after the fact.&lt;p&gt;To me this just falls under the category of unauthorized access. If my threat model included people physically present using force to access my sysadmins&amp;#x27; computers I would be implementing the same security with a company-wide lock-down triggered by a panic button on every machine.</text></comment>
<story><title>Uber remotely locked down offices during police raids, shutting off computers</title><url>https://www.bloomberg.com/view/articles/2018-01-12/uber-looks-great-when-the-police-barge-in</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>ejcx</author><text>Or with a different spin.&lt;p&gt;Locking your computers that are no longer in company possession is a common Enterprise control. They take protecting your data seriously!&lt;p&gt;If the authorities need the data on the computers the will surely present a properly scoped warrant!</text></comment>