On Thu, Nov 20, 2008 at 7:49 PM, kitepilot@kitepilot.com <kitepilot@kitepilot.com> wrote:
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2008/11/20/pentagon-cyber-siege-unprecedente
d-attack/
 

>... it has taken the unprecedented step of banning the use of external >hardware devices, such as flash drives and DVD's...

>The attack came in the form of a global virus or worm that is spreading rapidly throughout a number of military networks.

I fail to see the connection....
In my experience worms and virii usually don't propagate through DVDs... and rarely through flash drives. will banning these things REALLY secure things? what keeps a user behind their networks from opening VitalIntelligenceReport.doc.exe and executing it?
 
~ryan


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