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I'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 pass
by fabulist 11y ago
I'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!