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Re:NSA refused Clinton a secure BlackBerry like Obama, so sh... by fabulist on Thursday March 17, 2016 @11:18PM (#11309632)
A small point of information, it is also problematic (in a highly sensitive enviornment) to let people arbitrarily decide to take gigabytes of information out the door with them.
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Re:NSA refused Clinton a secure BlackBerry like Obama, so sh... by chris_wot on Friday March 18, 2016 @12:03AM (#11309796)
Indeed. Allowing workstations to connect USB storage should be prevented, even if they actually connect the drive into the USB slot.

Actually, I'm not even sure if Windows allows a way of preventing this.

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Re:NSA refused Clinton a secure BlackBerry like Obama, so sh... by fabulist on Friday March 18, 2016 @03:37AM (#11310417)
I've definitely spoken to people who've told me that, when they plug a USB drive in at their place of work, Windows pops up a dialog for an administrator's password in order to mount it. I believe this is some sort of group policy, but I'm afraid I only use GNU/Linux.
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Re:NSA refused Clinton a secure BlackBerry like Obama, so sh... by yompers888 on Friday March 18, 2016 @03:17PM (#11314159)
I've also seen ones that don't offer even that; they just block it outright.
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Re:NSA refused Clinton a secure BlackBerry like Obama, so sh... by chris_wot on Friday March 18, 2016 @08:51PM (#11316563)
Funny story: a particular Australian Federal government department I did consulting work for just couldn't figure out how to prevent auto mounting of USB storage and - I kid you not - they superglued all the USB ports on all workstations that had access to their secure servers!
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