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Re:IBM bans USB, SD cards, flash drives and portable devices... by visarga on Wednesday May 16, 2018 @03:52PM (#17085861)
> the usb ports are disabled and the usb ports on new issue computers are epoxied to prevent trying to use them.

That means many current day laptops can't be charged.

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Re:IBM bans USB, SD cards, flash drives and portable devices... by tzs on Wednesday May 16, 2018 @04:50PM (#17086359)
They could glue in a USB data blocker, which is a thing that plugs into a USB port and has a USB socket on the other end and has the power lines connected between the port and socket but not the data lines.
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