Originally Posted by
crwilsn
I work for the government and the computers are locked down so tight that it becomes impossible to work efficiently (i.e. thumb drives, preventing us from getting on required govt web sites, etc...). I especially liked when they blocked the website to complete the mandatory computer security training.
That's still not the same thing as operating on an isolated network. But it does demonstrate how such proxy services are ineffective at accomplishing their purpose.
Any time you use an ATM that info is going over the internet. Every Company you do business with likely puts your information on a server. It is encrypted as I am sure that CBP info is to their servers.
I am not 100% certain that the transactional information for the CBP/ICE apps is encrypted, but that is irrelevant to the discussion at hand. If the confidential/secure information is on a terminal that is also connected to an insecure network then the assumption must be that the data is insecure. That's the way the security industry looks at things.