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Is falling back to USB a good idea? It seems like if it’s public knowledge that they’ll use removable media as a backup transfer system, it’d open a whole new a
by zharknado 3y ago
Is falling back to USB a good idea? It seems like if it’s public knowledge that they’ll use removable media as a backup transfer system, it’d open a whole new attack vector for other systems.
- vincnetas 3y agoI assume they would fall back to paper if needed. Anything that gets things done. Anything else is just implementation details.
- dboreham 3y agoRFC 1149
- seanw444 3y agoThat has to be a joke.
- brink 3y agoIt started as a joke.
- phone8675309 3y agoLook at the date of publication
- bobsmooth 3y agohttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/April_Fools%27_Day_Request_for_Comments https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/April_Fools%27_Day_Request_for...
- eli 3y agoWhat would you suggest instead?
- jabroni_salad 3y agoThere are ways to do it safely. I support regional banks and our procedure is to whitelist the drive by uuid in our antivirus (requires a decent drive, not whatever bargain bin marketing object you have banging around) and also using bitlocker to encrypt it. So when you connect the drive for the first time, bitlocker reformats it and encrypts the partition, making it clean for business data and preventing you from bringing it to a non-bank computer. It is not ideal, but ** batch processing must happen daily OR ELSE ** even if that means driving a flash drive or an emergency uhaul rental's worth of paper across the state at a moment's notice. Every bank has progressively subgrade procedure sets depending on how bad their emergency is to ensure that this work is done.
- zharknado 3y agoFascinating, thanks for the detail. It’s pretty cool that there are viable digital downgrade paths. Thanks!