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[BBC] IBM workers banned from using USB sticks
[BBC] IBM workers banned from using USB sticks
Full story: http://www.bbc.com/news/technology-44069488 Staff at IBM have been banned from using removable memory devices such as USB sticks, SD cards and flash drives. The possibility of "financial and reputational" damage if staff lost or misused the devices prompted the decision, reported The Register. Instead, IBM staff who need to move data around will be encouraged to do so via an internal network. The decree banning removable storage acknowledges that complying with it could be "disruptive". Losing data ..... more .... -- @~@ Remain silent! Drink, Blink, Stretch! Live long and prosper!! / v \ Simplicity is Beauty! /( _ )\ May the Force and farces be with you! ^ ^ (x86_64 Ubuntu 9.10) Linux 2.6.39.3 不借貸! 不詐騙! 不*錢! 不援交! 不打交! 不打劫! 不自殺! 不求神! 請考慮綜援 (CSSA): http://www.swd.gov.hk/tc/index/site_...sub_addressesa |
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[BBC] IBM workers banned from using USB sticks
Mr. Man-wai Chang wrote:
[BBC] IBM workers banned from using USB sticks Full story: http://www.bbc.com/news/technology-44069488 Staff at IBM have been banned from using removable memory devices such as USB sticks, SD cards and flash drives. The possibility of "financial and reputational" damage if staff lost or misused the devices prompted the decision, reported The Register. Instead, IBM staff who need to move data around will be encouraged to do so via an internal network. The decree banning removable storage acknowledges that complying with it could be "disruptive". Losing data .... more .... Hmmm! I thought this was the twenty-first century, not the twentieth!? But heh, better late than never! |
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[BBC] IBM workers banned from using USB sticks
In message , Mr. Man-wai
Chang writes: [BBC] IBM workers banned from using USB sticks Full story: http://www.bbc.com/news/technology-44069488 Staff at IBM have been banned from using removable memory devices such as USB sticks, SD cards and flash drives. The possibility of "financial and reputational" damage if staff lost or misused the devices prompted the decision, reported The Register. Instead, IBM staff who need to move data around will be encouraged to do so via an internal network. The decree banning removable storage acknowledges that complying with it could be "disruptive". Losing data .... more .... The company I worked for banned them many years ago - for reasons of (a) concern of theft of secure [either in the government (it was a defence contractor) or commercial sense] material, and (b) fear of infection. -- J. P. Gilliver. UMRA: 1960/1985 MB++G()AL-IS-Ch++(p)Ar@T+H+Sh0!:`)DNAf Some cause happiness wherever they go; others, whenever they go. - Oscar Wilde |
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[BBC] IBM workers banned from using USB sticks
"Mr. Man-wai Chang" Wrote in message:
[BBC] IBM workers banned from using USB sticks It is a logical decision. I do not see it as a topic. -- Libor Striz aka Poutnik ( a pilgrim/wanderer/wayfarer) "Humour is the only effective weapon against stupidity." Miloš Forman ----Android NewsGroup Reader---- http://usenet.sinaapp.com/ |
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[BBC] IBM workers banned from using USB sticks
"J. P. Gilliver (John)" wrote:
In message , Mr. Man-wai Chang writes: [BBC] IBM workers banned from using USB sticks Full story: http://www.bbc.com/news/technology-44069488 Staff at IBM have been banned from using removable memory devices such as USB sticks, SD cards and flash drives. The possibility of "financial and reputational" damage if staff lost or misused the devices prompted the decision, reported The Register. Instead, IBM staff who need to move data around will be encouraged to do so via an internal network. The decree banning removable storage acknowledges that complying with it could be "disruptive". Losing data .... more .... The company I worked for banned them many years ago - for reasons of (a) concern of theft of secure [either in the government (it was a defence contractor) or commercial sense] material, and (b) fear of infection. Exactly. Same with the little 150K employee computer company I worked for. As soon as USB ports showed up on computers, they were made inoperable. (No card-readers at that time.) That was well before the year 2000. |
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[BBC] IBM workers banned from using USB sticks
On Sun, 13 May 2018 07:05:06 +0200 (GMT+02:00), Libor Striz wrote:
"Mr. Man-wai Chang" Wrote in message: [BBC] IBM workers banned from using USB sticks It is a logical decision. I do not see it as a topic. Welcome to UseNet mate. |
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[BBC] IBM workers banned from using USB sticks
mechanic Wrote in message:
On Sun, 13 May 2018 07:05:06 +0200 (GMT+02:00), Libor Striz wrote: "Mr. Man-wai Chang" Wrote in message: [BBC] IBM workers banned from using USB sticks It is a logical decision. I do not see it as a topic. Welcome to UseNet mate. Being here for more then 20 years, mate. -- Libor Striz aka Poutnik ( a pilgrim/wanderer/wayfarer) "Humour is the only effective weapon against stupidity." Miloš Forman ----Android NewsGroup Reader---- http://usenet.sinaapp.com/ |
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[BBC] IBM workers banned from using USB sticks
Frank Slootweg wrote in
news "J. P. Gilliver (John)" wrote: In message , Mr. Man-wai Chang writes: [BBC] IBM workers banned from using USB sticks Full story: http://www.bbc.com/news/technology-44069488 Staff at IBM have been banned from using removable memory devices such as USB sticks, SD cards and flash drives. The possibility of "financial and reputational" damage if staff lost or misused the devices prompted the decision, reported The Register. Instead, IBM staff who need to move data around will be encouraged to do so via an internal network. The decree banning removable storage acknowledges that complying with it could be "disruptive". Losing data .... more .... The company I worked for banned them many years ago - for reasons of (a) concern of theft of secure [either in the government (it was a defence contractor) or commercial sense] material, and (b) fear of infection. Exactly. Same with the little 150K employee computer company I worked for. As soon as USB ports showed up on computers, they were made inoperable. (No card-readers at that time.) That was well before the year 2000. Many years ago I used to service some data equipment at a defense contractor site. I was required to leave my calculator at the security check-in desk for the same reason. This was long before USB ever came into existence. And of course, there is the most popular story floating around about the banning of Furbies, due to their small memory function. Data loss concerns have been around for a long, long time. |
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[BBC] IBM workers banned from using USB sticks
In article , Frank Slootweg
wrote: The company I worked for banned them many years ago - for reasons of (a) concern of theft of secure [either in the government (it was a defence contractor) or commercial sense] material, and (b) fear of infection. Exactly. Same with the little 150K employee computer company I worked for. As soon as USB ports showed up on computers, they were made inoperable. (No card-readers at that time.) That was well before the year 2000. there weren't very many usb peripherals 'well before the year 2000' so disabling the usb ports didn't make much of a difference. meanwhile, ethernet ports remained active... |
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[BBC] IBM workers banned from using USB sticks
Jason Wrote in message:
I recall a few years ago reading that the Pentagon had such a policy in place and had filled USB sockets with epoxy to enforce it. Quite a disadvantage if one is using a USB mouse or keyboard. -- Libor Striz aka Poutnik ( a pilgrim/wanderer/wayfarer) "Humour is the only effective weapon against stupidity." Miloš Forman ----Android NewsGroup Reader---- http://usenet.sinaapp.com/ |
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[BBC] IBM workers banned from using USB sticks
nospam wrote:
In article , Frank Slootweg wrote: The company I worked for banned them many years ago - for reasons of (a) concern of theft of secure [either in the government (it was a defence contractor) or commercial sense] material, and (b) fear of infection. Exactly. Same with the little 150K employee computer company I worked for. As soon as USB ports showed up on computers, they were made inoperable. (No card-readers at that time.) That was well before the year 2000. there weren't very many usb peripherals 'well before the year 2000' so disabling the usb ports didn't make much of a difference. meanwhile, ethernet ports remained active... You know that Ethernet ports can be blocked, right ? A manager at work learned this the hard way. The IT department would only schedule a workstation move, for a date a few weeks into the future. The newly minted manager said "come on, you lads, and help me move this computer" (the gentleman was an "I don't take No for an answer" type). The routers were set up with MAC filtering, so "strange" Ethernet devices would be ignored. And sure enough, upon connecting the machine and booting... "no network" was the result. So sure, it may look like an Ethernet port, but you'd better have good knowledge of what MAC address to appropriate before that connection is going to work. That's why they buy equipment with features like that, just to make a damn nuisance of themselves with it :-) We all had a good chuckle about the "test results", and had to drive all the equipment back up the hall again afterwards. If a party doing industrial espionage had an insider who could collect MAC addresses, they could probably manage to bypass that feature. It's not like the method is "Fort Knox" or anything. But at the time, it was pretty funny that a legit employee move could be blocked that way. Paul |
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[BBC] IBM workers banned from using USB sticks
In article , Paul
wrote: The company I worked for banned them many years ago - for reasons of (a) concern of theft of secure [either in the government (it was a defence contractor) or commercial sense] material, and (b) fear of infection. Exactly. Same with the little 150K employee computer company I worked for. As soon as USB ports showed up on computers, they were made inoperable. (No card-readers at that time.) That was well before the year 2000. there weren't very many usb peripherals 'well before the year 2000' so disabling the usb ports didn't make much of a difference. meanwhile, ethernet ports remained active... You know that Ethernet ports can be blocked, right ? of course, except that would make the computer rather useless. the point is that blocking usb ports, especially at a time when there weren't very many usb devices available (as in almost nothing, it was usb 1.0 days), while leaving everything else wide open, is completely pointless. A manager at work learned this the hard way. The IT department would only schedule a workstation move, for a date a few weeks into the future. The newly minted manager said "come on, you lads, and help me move this computer" (the gentleman was an "I don't take No for an answer" type). The routers were set up with MAC filtering, so "strange" Ethernet devices would be ignored. And sure enough, upon connecting the machine and booting... "no network" was the result. finding a valid mac address and spoofing it is incredibly trivial. mac address filtering is a very big clue that the sysadmins do not understand anything about network security. |
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[BBC] IBM workers banned from using USB sticks
On Sun, 13 May 2018 01:11:10 +0800, "Mr. Man-wai Chang"
wrote: [BBC] IBM workers banned from using USB sticks Full story: http://www.bbc.com/news/technology-44069488 Staff at IBM have been banned from using removable memory devices such as USB sticks, SD cards and flash drives. The possibility of "financial and reputational" damage if staff lost or misused the devices prompted the decision, reported The Register. Instead, IBM staff who need to move data around will be encouraged to do so via an internal network. The decree banning removable storage acknowledges that complying with it could be "disruptive". Losing data .... more .... IBM engineers are going to have fun when some of their systems use USB flash drives for diagnostics...... anyhow there are rumours that there was an attacvk of common sense and exceptions https://www.theregister.co.uk/2018/0..._every where/ -- Stephen |
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[BBC] IBM workers banned from using USB sticks
In alt.comp.hardware.pc-homebuilt Libor Striz wrote:
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