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And hospitals (not the glueing part, but the blocking of anything that's recognized as a USB storage medium).

• Pamar 8y ago
  Absolutely - I don't understand why this is "new", "odd" or "difficult". I work for an European company (travel/tourism) and the day they hired me (4 years ago) I got a corporate laptop with Windows 7 which would accept usb mouses, keyboards, charge smartphones... but would not "mount" anything that had storage. Interestingly enough I can connect my (personal) iPhone, and I can read pictures stored there, but I cannot write to it - I haven't tried installing iTunes because I don't need to backup to my work laptop so no idea how it would work with dedicated sw, but for sure there is no need to use epoxy glue or physical locks. (Granted, I never tried to see how strong the protection was because it's not my specialty and frankly I don't care, but it looks like it works well enough as it is).
• salgernon 8y ago
  I met with a medical specialist at a huge hospital in New York - I had a usb drive with about 50G imaging data (pet, ct, mri) and they refused to access it. Fortunately I was also hosting it on my own server in various formats - nope, they can’t access the external network. I ended up burning the whole set to a spindle of dvds, which they could then import .. and shred.
  • mc32 8y ago
    Many companies do not allow the physical removal of “hard drives” and must be shredded before they can exit a door, which is why the “keep your drive” warranty policy is quite popular with many companies.
    • Lev1a 8y ago
      In the hospital I work at old CDs/DVDs/HDDs (readable or not) go through the slit at the top of a locked metal bin that gets taken away by some company at some point in time.