[duxup]

I can't imagine any justification for any government device that should be secure to have anything on it but the bare minimum software and the device in whatever hardened mode it has.

If they visit the White House, government facility ... should go in a locker.

I worked for a company that sent people onsite to government contractors. One contractor we rarely visited was at a facility where you arrived at the front gate in your rental car with your ID, keys, and equipment you needed. You were told if you brought anything else expect to lose it.

They took your ID and keys at the gate, searched the car, you were blindfoled and they escorted you to the location of the equipment. If you had to go to the bathroom your were escorted (all the way...). You left with the clothes on your back.

We went through a lot of laptops, but ... that place was secure.

[pjc50]

The 24/7 usage of Twitter, Truth Social, and random Signal group chats by the White House should give you some idea how seriously security is taken there.

[scrubs]

Thank goodness somebody takes security seriously. The cynic in me (opposed in strongest terms by the realist and give-a-damn in me) says: Whitehouse? Go for it. You'll probably leave more stupid (confused) than you went in.

[duxup]

In this case it was a military facility and contractor so security is kinda built in to the system to some extent.

Security involving politicians / civilian workers ... much harder I imagine.