24-08-2016 09:54 via theverge.com

Singapore will ban civil servants from using the internet

Public servants in Singapore will be barred from using the internet at work, under a new policy aimed at protecting the city-state from cyber attacks and espionage. As Reuters reports, computers in some Singaporean ministries are already disconnected, or "air-gapped," from the web, but security experts doubt that expanding the policy will do much to enhance cybersecurity.
David Koh, head of Singapore's Cyber Security Agency, tells Reuters that officials decided to air gap government compute
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