On Thu, 18 Mar 2010 12:39:42 -0500, Hal Merritt wrote: >USB stick based solutions are a good thing for the weary warrior just trying >to do a job in spite of the 'services' of the PC folks. However, such >solutions have been drawing attention from both the auditors and miscreants as >an attack vector. > Sic transit PuTTY? XMing? Knoppix? et. al.
Doesn't the same apply to optical disks? Perhaps every programmer should be given a thin client with no floppy, optical, nor USB. Hmmm. My thin client has 4 USB ports. "thin client"? I remember when they were called "terminals". -- gil ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
