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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 t
by fabulist 11y ago
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.
- chris_wot 11y agoIndeed. 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.
- fabulist 11y agoI'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.
- yompers888 11y agoI've also seen ones that don't offer even that; they just block it outright.
- chris_wot 11y agoFunny 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!