Military Bans Disks, Threatens Courts-Martial to Stop New Leaks

Re:Military Bans Disks, Threatens Courts-Martial to Stop New... by rbranson on Thursday December 09, 2010 @10:23PM (#1990458)

I think it's pretty damning to the military that they have such huge issues with their secret data. Relatively pedestrian measures required by standards like PCI-DSS could increase the security of these systems many-fold.

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Re:Military Bans Disks, Threatens Courts-Martial to Stop New... by roel_v on Friday December 10, 2010 @03:51AM (#1991092)

I think this is understating the difficulties, and the underlying issues, the military faces. The problem comes from inherent tensions between two goals: secrecy on the one hand, efficient data dissemination on the other. You can have one or the other, but not both at the same time. So the state of the arts moves back and forth between the two.

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