Thanks Hayes,
I do understand this view. I was around when "we" blew these concerns off
the table. Funny how technology has come back to bite us in the butt.
OUCH! LOL!
Best,
Duncan
At 21:37 03/02/2008 -0500, you wrote:
It's pretty much the standard corporate environment now to have a PC with
no floppy or ROM drive (or access disabled), usb ports turned off (save
for KB&M) and PCI slots disabled. Nobody 10 years ago though much of
security concerns when taking 1.44MB floppies home, but when you can put a
32GB flash drive into a desktop and take the entire network shares with
you - it raises a red flag on just why anybody needs access to a
floppy/ROM/usb storage device in the first place.> Date: Sun, 2 Mar 2008
19:35:51 -0500> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]> To:
hardware@hardwaregroup.com> Subject: Re: [H] Flash drive(s)> > Security.
If you were using a workstation that had access to government > secrets,
health records, financial records, etc., the powers that be > would want
to ensure that a rogue worker would not come in and copy that >
information into a small, easily concealed flash drive and walk off with >
secret data.> > DHSinclair wrote:> > Ben,> > Nice. Really nice! Is there
some reason the "power's-that-be" did this? > > NO! Don't even hazard a
guess! Will get tools, will live on. Not yet > > ready to play with "Group
Policy" business, yet. I've learned that GP > > is really big "mana" and
that I am not 'read' enough to play there. > > Fine. I will truck on. I am
still a default kind of person (subject to > > M$ updates, that is).
Thanks much.> > Best,> > Duncan
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