http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/22/dod-eases-ban-on-thumb-drive-use-for-us-military-our-enemies-re/ Engadget Comments for DoD eases ban on thumb drive use for US military, our enemies rejoice http://www.engadget.com/media/feedlogo.gif http://www.engadget.com en-us Copyright 2012 Weblogs, Inc. The contents of this feed are available for non-commercial use only. Blogsmith http://www.blogsmith.com/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/22/dod-eases-ban-on-thumb-drive-use-for-us-military-our-enemies-re/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/22/dod-eases-ban-on-thumb-drive-use-for-us-military-our-enemies-re/Feb 22nd 2010 1:06AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/22/dod-eases-ban-on-thumb-drive-use-for-us-military-our-enemies-re/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/22/dod-eases-ban-on-thumb-drive-use-for-us-military-our-enemies-re/Feb 22nd 2010 1:39AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/22/dod-eases-ban-on-thumb-drive-use-for-us-military-our-enemies-re/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/22/dod-eases-ban-on-thumb-drive-use-for-us-military-our-enemies-re/Feb 22nd 2010 11:19AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/22/dod-eases-ban-on-thumb-drive-use-for-us-military-our-enemies-re/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/22/dod-eases-ban-on-thumb-drive-use-for-us-military-our-enemies-re/
your breakin my balls Brix your breakin my ballls]]>Feb 22nd 2010 3:39PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/22/dod-eases-ban-on-thumb-drive-use-for-us-military-our-enemies-re/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/22/dod-eases-ban-on-thumb-drive-use-for-us-military-our-enemies-re/
With all the gobs of money US military has they forgot to buy extra storage space to keep a back up of all their data?? I dont want to know what would happen if some one stole all the recipes for MRE meals.
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MRE's and IMP's suck so hardcore...]]>Feb 22nd 2010 2:31AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/22/dod-eases-ban-on-thumb-drive-use-for-us-military-our-enemies-re/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/22/dod-eases-ban-on-thumb-drive-use-for-us-military-our-enemies-re/Feb 22nd 2010 1:10AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/22/dod-eases-ban-on-thumb-drive-use-for-us-military-our-enemies-re/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/22/dod-eases-ban-on-thumb-drive-use-for-us-military-our-enemies-re/
Hans Brix? You're breaking my barrs, Hans, you're breaking my barrs.]]>Feb 22nd 2010 12:06PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/22/dod-eases-ban-on-thumb-drive-use-for-us-military-our-enemies-re/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/22/dod-eases-ban-on-thumb-drive-use-for-us-military-our-enemies-re/
having said that, i must also comment on the picture. sushi! fuck yeah!]]>Feb 22nd 2010 1:11AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/22/dod-eases-ban-on-thumb-drive-use-for-us-military-our-enemies-re/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/22/dod-eases-ban-on-thumb-drive-use-for-us-military-our-enemies-re/
It is really embarrassing, for example, when your classified computer (which is attached to a protected, classified network gets infected), and spams the entire address book (including such notables as the CNO).]]>Feb 22nd 2010 7:23AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/22/dod-eases-ban-on-thumb-drive-use-for-us-military-our-enemies-re/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/22/dod-eases-ban-on-thumb-drive-use-for-us-military-our-enemies-re/Feb 22nd 2010 1:11AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/22/dod-eases-ban-on-thumb-drive-use-for-us-military-our-enemies-re/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/22/dod-eases-ban-on-thumb-drive-use-for-us-military-our-enemies-re/No doubt...
This did not only impact people directly in the military, but other areas as well. It wasn't only flash drives but any USB drive.
What do you do with 4 terabytes of research data that you need to move between computers and use as back ups? After this ban? Turn in all your external drives and hope your drive doesn't crash or you can back up all your data to your 2 gigabytes of space on the network... nevermind that most of the research computers aren't networked for software and security reasons...]]>Feb 22nd 2010 1:28AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/22/dod-eases-ban-on-thumb-drive-use-for-us-military-our-enemies-re/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/22/dod-eases-ban-on-thumb-drive-use-for-us-military-our-enemies-re/
You work for the DoD, and you don't know when to use "they're"?

Do you work for the U.S. Department of Defense?]]>Feb 22nd 2010 1:38AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/22/dod-eases-ban-on-thumb-drive-use-for-us-military-our-enemies-re/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/22/dod-eases-ban-on-thumb-drive-use-for-us-military-our-enemies-re/Feb 22nd 2010 1:59AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/22/dod-eases-ban-on-thumb-drive-use-for-us-military-our-enemies-re/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/22/dod-eases-ban-on-thumb-drive-use-for-us-military-our-enemies-re/
Had? We still have such a president.]]>Feb 22nd 2010 2:29AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/22/dod-eases-ban-on-thumb-drive-use-for-us-military-our-enemies-re/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/22/dod-eases-ban-on-thumb-drive-use-for-us-military-our-enemies-re/Feb 22nd 2010 7:02AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/22/dod-eases-ban-on-thumb-drive-use-for-us-military-our-enemies-re/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/22/dod-eases-ban-on-thumb-drive-use-for-us-military-our-enemies-re/Past tense. The ban took effect several months after I left. I should make it clear that it was under the US Army, so maybe they expanded the device list under the DOD ban. I still speak with my colleagues and the army definitely took all external drives from them. I'll ask them if they've gotten them back yet the next time I see them.]]>Feb 22nd 2010 10:14AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/22/dod-eases-ban-on-thumb-drive-use-for-us-military-our-enemies-re/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/22/dod-eases-ban-on-thumb-drive-use-for-us-military-our-enemies-re/
That's definitely a Army specific thing. For NMCI (I know, I know) USB hard drives are fine unless your command says otherwise. If it spins, it is fine on NMCI (that is the actual line BTW)]]>Feb 22nd 2010 5:00PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/22/dod-eases-ban-on-thumb-drive-use-for-us-military-our-enemies-re/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/22/dod-eases-ban-on-thumb-drive-use-for-us-military-our-enemies-re/
Same in the Air Force... I was in the middle east when the ban happend. Right away everything USB was blocked except keyboards and mice. Then the stupid submarine cables between Africa and Europe broke and killed everything but .mil sites due to bandwidth... stayed that way until I left.

When I got back to home station, the policy was only flash-based USB devices were not allowed. The "policy" was that you had to have the drive scanned by the admins, but I don't see why the antivirus on the computer wouldn't pick up any viruses.

Yeah, it's a security risk, but not much more than a misplaced CD-R that you have to use currently to transport files/documents between home and work... Things like performance reports and stuff that you don't have time to work on at work...]]>Feb 22nd 2010 8:03PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/22/dod-eases-ban-on-thumb-drive-use-for-us-military-our-enemies-re/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/22/dod-eases-ban-on-thumb-drive-use-for-us-military-our-enemies-re/Feb 22nd 2010 1:28AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/22/dod-eases-ban-on-thumb-drive-use-for-us-military-our-enemies-re/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/22/dod-eases-ban-on-thumb-drive-use-for-us-military-our-enemies-re/
Are you kidding?

They'd never share that type of intel with us... It was where Mobile Suit Gundam was parked:

http://www.engadget.com/2009/07/09/video-life-sized-gundams-back-looking-deadlier-than-ever/]]>Feb 22nd 2010 1:42AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/22/dod-eases-ban-on-thumb-drive-use-for-us-military-our-enemies-re/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/22/dod-eases-ban-on-thumb-drive-use-for-us-military-our-enemies-re/Feb 22nd 2010 1:59AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/22/dod-eases-ban-on-thumb-drive-use-for-us-military-our-enemies-re/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/22/dod-eases-ban-on-thumb-drive-use-for-us-military-our-enemies-re/Feb 22nd 2010 2:22AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/22/dod-eases-ban-on-thumb-drive-use-for-us-military-our-enemies-re/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/22/dod-eases-ban-on-thumb-drive-use-for-us-military-our-enemies-re/Feb 22nd 2010 2:57AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/22/dod-eases-ban-on-thumb-drive-use-for-us-military-our-enemies-re/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/22/dod-eases-ban-on-thumb-drive-use-for-us-military-our-enemies-re/Feb 22nd 2010 6:16AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/22/dod-eases-ban-on-thumb-drive-use-for-us-military-our-enemies-re/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/22/dod-eases-ban-on-thumb-drive-use-for-us-military-our-enemies-re/Feb 22nd 2010 9:06AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/22/dod-eases-ban-on-thumb-drive-use-for-us-military-our-enemies-re/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/22/dod-eases-ban-on-thumb-drive-use-for-us-military-our-enemies-re/Feb 22nd 2010 10:47AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/22/dod-eases-ban-on-thumb-drive-use-for-us-military-our-enemies-re/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/22/dod-eases-ban-on-thumb-drive-use-for-us-military-our-enemies-re/Feb 22nd 2010 11:57AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/22/dod-eases-ban-on-thumb-drive-use-for-us-military-our-enemies-re/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/22/dod-eases-ban-on-thumb-drive-use-for-us-military-our-enemies-re/Feb 22nd 2010 1:06PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/22/dod-eases-ban-on-thumb-drive-use-for-us-military-our-enemies-re/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/22/dod-eases-ban-on-thumb-drive-use-for-us-military-our-enemies-re/
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