RE: USB and smart drives

From: Aditya, ALD [Aditya Lalit Deshmukh] (aditya.deshmukh_at_online.gateway.technolabs.net)
Date: 03/10/04

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    To: "steve" <securityfocus@delahunty.com>, "Mike" <mike@superiorholidayadventures.ca>, "Benny Late" <lvmygop@hotmail.com>, <security-basics@lists.securityfocus.com>
Date: Wed, 10 Mar 2004 15:32:12 +0530

    > How would this be different than any policy, or lack thereof, that covers
    > the use of floppy disk drives? There are many similarities. The
    > difference
    > lies in the fact that these USB devices can copy larger
    > quantities of data,
    > but some same issues apply as with floppy disks. Due to the USB
    > drive sizes

    with floppy disks, just remove them and a host of headaches like boot sector viruses and other related probs just disappeared

    but with the usb disks, the usb ports are available in each and every mother board and all the os have the drives built in them : so they are very difficult to contol, poilcy should take that into your account.

    having a policy that will have all the computer privs revoked after the probs is like closing the barn door after all the cattle has left the barn.

    -aditya

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