[TriLUG] Fun Cheap Firewall (or web/email/dns/whatever server)

[Rodney Radford]

These two articles address the issue of why the ban was inacted, and that it is probably a temporary measure until more investigation can be done:

http://www.stripes.com/article.asp?section=104&article=58951
http://www.betanews.com/article/DoD-responds-to-elderly-worm-by-yanking-removable-media/1227562140


-----Original Message-----
>From: Cristóbal Palmer <cmp at cmpalmer.org>
>Sent: Jan 17, 2010 3:26 PM
>To: Triangle Linux Users Group General Discussion <trilug at trilug.org>
>Subject: Re: [TriLUG] Fun Cheap Firewall (or web/email/dns/whatever server)
>
>On Fri, Jan 15, 2010 at 11:45 PM, Clay Stuckey <claystuckey at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> I hadn't ever
>> set up a usb thumb drive as a boot device. They are rather frowned upon in
>> the defense sector these days.
>
>Sorry to derail, but could you explain this statement a bit? USB thumb
>drives generally are frowned upon, or thumb drives as boot devices? If
>thumb drives generally, what are the consequences if someone discovers
>you have one on your person? I'm suddenly inordinately curious.
>
>Cheers,
>-- 
>Cristóbal M. Palmer
>ibiblio.org systems
>cdla.unc.edu research assistant
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