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

[Ralph Blach]

Moderators, could you kindly ask people to end this topic.

Thanks

Chip

Clay Stuckey wrote:
> Having portable rewritable media is another concern.
>
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> On Jan 17, 2010, at 9:10 PM, Kristopher Kane 
> <kristopher.kane at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>>> 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 
>>>
>>>
>>>
>> To expand on the second article:
>>
>> If you have ever served in the Army, or other combat oriented
>> branches/organizations, you remember being drilled from day one to 
>> "..always
>> maintain my arms, my equipment, and myself." Specifically, if you 
>> have ever
>> served in the Infantry, you remember spending a large amount of time 
>> tying
>> down sensitive items to your body during operations.  This same 
>> philosophy
>> never made it in the minds of Soldiers when pertaining to USB 
>> mass-storage
>> devices.
>>
>> Very large amounts of data from classified or official use only networks
>> could be stored on thumb drives and well, people lose them.  It only 
>> takes
>> the loss of one drive to have a large impact.
>>
>> CDs/DVDs are inconvenient and hard to miss when going through your 
>> laundry
>> for turn in.
>>
>> The propagation of malicious code was the other half of that policy
>> decision.
>>
>> -Kane
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