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Comment by VWWHFSfQ

7 hours ago

The DoD and US military does not allow contractors to use iPhones or anything else that is not backed by government-hosted or compliant infrastructure, such as GovCloud. The fact that the Pentagon and Anthropic could not come to an agreement on the usage and deployment to GenAI.mil means that it can't be used.

The reasons why are incidental to that requirement for defense contractors.

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Jtsummers  7 hours ago

> The DoD and US military does not allow contractors to use iPhones

What are you talking about? That's nowhere close to a true statement.

  • VWWHFSfQ  7 hours ago

    > that is not backed by government-hosted or compliant infrastructure, such as GovCloud

    • Jtsummers  6 hours ago

      Go into a random defense contractor office and (assuming you can get in to do this) ask them how many of their iPhones are managed by the company. The percentage who say theirs are will be close to 0%. Most are personal devices, and they use them to call into meetings with DOD officials all the time with no special precautions taken.