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Re:Trove of Stolen Data Is Said to Include Top-Secret U.S. H... by JohnStrange on Thursday October 20, 2016 @04:13AM (#12750520)
What I find astonishing is that these machines have working USB ports at all. And even if there are some external media connections like DVD burner or USB, wouldn't it make sense to at least hardwire them to some tamper-resistant logging device that protocols who used them at which time?
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Re:Trove of Stolen Data Is Said to Include Top-Secret U.S. H... by gnarbarian on Thursday October 20, 2016 @04:42AM (#12750644)
You have to trust your employees at some point. If he was writing code he also could have written back doors to access and download it from somewhere else.
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Re:Trove of Stolen Data Is Said to Include Top-Secret U.S. H... by chucksmash on Thursday October 20, 2016 @09:23AM (#12751937)
I'm certain I remember hearing about the military at least filling USB ports with epoxy at one point after the Manning leaks.
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Re:Trove of Stolen Data Is Said to Include Top-Secret U.S. H... by thingexplainer on Thursday October 20, 2016 @12:45PM (#12753921)
This has been SOP in certain places for a long time.
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