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Well pretty much everyone who works for a corporation has a responsibility to protect confidential information. However it's not really all that James Bond because the problem of international travel is normally solved by having code among other things not stored on laptops.



The responsibility to protect corporate information does not generally include any resistance to duress, almost every company has to simply accept that the health or life or imprisonment of the responsible employee is more valuable (really, on a whole different scale) than the protection of that information, and they have to instruct their employees to comply with any duress - just as bank tellers are instructed to just hand over cash when threatened, or as happened when duress was applied to employee family members in the https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2009_Bank_of_Ireland_robbery - if you're not working in the military or intelligence services where literally lives are at stake, it's exceedingly likely that your threat model should simply not include trying to resist duress, and if you do, you're immorally putting your employees at risk to protect something that's relatively not that important like corporate profits.


Yes but there's nothing to protect if there's nothing there. I don't think Apple expects its employees to fall on a sword to prevent customs officers from reading its plans for iPad 11.0. But they certainly expect them not to download such docs to their desktop right before hopping on an international flight.




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