You wont believe how many requests I see put in our help desk queue for a user to bring in their laptop to download "music and videos" onto it. They ask with a straight face not even expecting this request to be scorned or the activity in question malicious.
Kids these days coming out of the wild, wild west of college have no reference point to follow on the legalities of computer use. All desktops in our enterprise after a few years ago come built with no floppies or ROM media devices, and I thank Dell for having the ability to shut down individual USB ports in the BIOS. > Date: Wed, 16 Jan 2008 10:05:18 -0500 > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > To: hardware@hardwaregroup.com > Subject: Re: [H] Save XP! > > What gives you the right to attach non-company owned equipment to a > company owned PC? What happens if your flash drive caused a voltage > spike and ruined the USB ports on the machine? Who is responsible? > > There are plenty of good reasons to not let people bring removable media > into work. Viruses, and the very real possibility that confidential data > will find it's way to that USB drive and either be leaked, lost, or at > best misappropriated. > > I think that there are corporate standards, and if one of those > corporate standards are "no outside devices" then thats what the policy > is, and people either choose to accept that or find another job. > > I don't ban USB drives and ipods at my office. But I can appreciate why > some companies would see it as a security risk and want to act accordingly. > > Anthony Q. Martin wrote: >> It is not always a security risk for a user to attach a flash drive. >> What, you think everyone there is an idiot but you? Please explain how >> connecting a flash drive to a PC means they are doing anything but >> working? Get real people. ARe you glued to your work every minute you >> are there? Do you really think people are drones who shouldn't touch >> "your" machines unless they are "working". _________________________________________________________________ Share life as it happens with the new Windows Live. http://www.windowslive.com/share.html?ocid=TXT_TAGHM_Wave2_sharelife_012008
