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My employer blocks USB memory sticks... but still permits keyboards and mice for convenience. I am not sure what they hope to accomplish.
by kazagistar 11y ago
My employer blocks USB memory sticks... but still permits keyboards and mice for convenience. I am not sure what they hope to accomplish.
- px43 11y agoThey hope to prevent people from putting sensitive documents on unencrypted media that's easy to lose. There have been worms that spread through autorun and shell exploits, but I think that's a secondary concern.
- kazagistar 11y ago... except I don't have access to sensitive information (because we have a decent separation between programmers and ops related to PII), and I do have full access to the entire internet, which is a great alternate insecure transfer medium.