I got a new job on the military base as basically a data entry peon. My boss told me that we are all forbidden from using flash drives on the computers because the government has discovered that some foreign-made thumb drives have some kinda software on it that sucks data from the computer it's plugged into, and then streams it over the internet if you're connected. However, portable hard drives with spinning discs are safe to use.Anybody heard of this before? I guess I believe it, but I want to learn more about this.
I'm joining the army computer Corps in Sep!never heard of these thumb drives. I'm not even sure you can program a thumb drive to do that...
If you're a spy, I guess?
I do know that you can load software onto a thumbdrive that will automatically install/boot on the PC it's jacked into. That presents a major security breach, ergo no unauthorized thumbdrives.
Yes, actually, and oddly enough I was talking with my father about this today. Save for the streaming feature, thats a new one on me.Also, he's wrong about portable hard drives being safer.
>>1526>Also, he's wrong about portable hard drives being safer.This.
>>1526>>1590So what would be the safest thing to do? Manually check all the files on a separate, unconnected computer?
That's a load of BS. All they want is to stop people from introducing malware into their network.
>>1934Well that's a pretty fair reason, I'd say.
>>1969I'm fairly certain he's defending them doing something for that purpose, though against whose claim I have no idea.