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2018-02-01 Government

Mattis considering personal cellphone ban at Pentagon

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Posted by Besoeker 2018-02-01 02:11|| E-Mail|| Front Page|| [11127 views ] Top

#1 Sounds like a school teacher.

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2018-02-01 02:15|| 2018-02-01 02:15|| Front Page Top

#2 According to CNN, the current review of the Pentagon's cellphone policy was prompted by a small number of cases in which employees brought their personal phones into classified areas.

Which could easily be resolved by an immediate suspension of security clearance and access to the classified area! Word will get around fairly quickly.

I believe an active security clearance is a generally a "condition of employment."

Posted by Besoeker 2018-02-01 02:19|| 2018-02-01 02:19|| Front Page Top

#3 It has been forbidden to bring a cellphone or flash drive into a SCIF as long as I can recall

Posted by Blossom Hupager6063 2018-02-01 06:42|| 2018-02-01 06:42|| Front Page Top

#4 SCIF - is that Maxwell Smart's "Cone of Silence" or more like his shoe?

Posted by Anguper Hupomosing9418 2018-02-01 08:40|| 2018-02-01 08:40|| Front Page Top

#5 Cell jammers were a quite popular accessory in hardline SCIFs for a while. Easier than policy and physical monitoring.

Posted by Skidmark 2018-02-01 08:51|| 2018-02-01 08:51|| Front Page Top

#6 Cell jammers were a quite popular accessory in hardline SCIFs for a while. Easier than policy and physical monitoring.
Posted by: Skidmark.

If you experience intense, high-pitched, pulsing, ringing noise, "like a mass of crickets" or a whine that "seems to undulate, even writhe," like nails on a chalkboard, leave the SCIF and contact your physician at once.

Posted by Besoeker 2018-02-01 08:55|| 2018-02-01 08:55|| Front Page Top

#7 About time.

Posted by Woodrow 2018-02-01 10:03|| 2018-02-01 10:03|| Front Page Top

#8 You mean this is not the policy now?

Posted by CrazyFool 2018-02-01 10:22|| 2018-02-01 10:22|| Front Page Top

#9 #5 Cell jammers were a quite popular accessory in hardline SCIFs for a while. Easier than policy and physical monitoring. Posted by Skidmark

It is the camera part of the cell phone that is the danger...not the radio part.

Posted by Tennessee 2018-02-01 11:22|| 2018-02-01 11:22|| Front Page Top

#10 Add the tracking part. You don't want folks tracked into and out of the Pentagon. It's no different than that exercise tracker.
What restaurants, bars, hotels are attractive to this group? Why ISIS can bomb them.

Posted by 3dc 2018-02-01 11:57|| 2018-02-01 11:57|| Front Page Top

#11 That would include the cellphones you might not be aware of built into your car and the id pressure transducers Al the Gore insisted being in all tires constantly broadcasting pressure, id, where bought, serial # and maybe even your credit card #. May the CALEA driving, Global Worming, EPA policeman be bowed down to.

Posted by 3dc 2018-02-01 12:00|| 2018-02-01 12:00|| Front Page Top

#12 There is an easy answer. All employees must go through an EMP pulse room with enough power to brick any electronics.

Posted by Silentbrick 2018-02-01 12:10|| 2018-02-01 12:10|| Front Page Top

#13 There goes my pacemaker!

Posted by Skidmark 2018-02-01 12:40|| 2018-02-01 12:40|| Front Page Top

#14 You can be strip searched instead;) By Nancy Pelosi;)

Posted by Silentbrick 2018-02-01 13:50|| 2018-02-01 13:50|| Front Page Top

#15 Best one I ever had was coming into LAX.
They were determined to find something.

Posted by Skidmark 2018-02-01 15:17|| 2018-02-01 15:17|| Front Page Top

#16 Always had a cellphone/electronics device ban in any SCIF I ever saw. It might actually increase productivity and job focus to ban cellphones while on duty there, including DoD civilians.

Posted by Injun Bucket8891 2018-02-01 15:35|| 2018-02-01 15:35|| Front Page Top

#17 The issue really hinges on the GPS that can be pinged even when the phone is powered down.

Leaving your phone in the little locker outside the SCIF won't solve that. During my visits to Los Alamos etc we had to remove the batteries.

Posted by Snoluting Phomoth8901 2018-02-01 17:35|| 2018-02-01 17:35|| Front Page Top

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