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Martijn Grooten wrote:
Its called management - if you disabled USB stick access management wouldn't be able to take work home (print out holiday picks in the office)On Fri, Sep 4, 2009 at 7:15 PM, Rob Beardwrote:I can't remember if this was posted before, but it's an article about how a London council was infected with Conficker costing them lots of money to sort out (plus lots of lost revenue in fines). Their solution? Upgrade from Windows 2000 to Windows XP. Yeah great.I won't go into the debate whether if everyone used Linux there'd be fewer viruses, but if someone can make so much damage by plugging in an infected USB stick, then something more serious is the matter than "wrong operating system" or even "viruses are just really bad". Why did the IT security policy enable that person able to plug the infected stick in the first place?
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