Anthony,
I was agreeing with you until this post.
Yes, a company, and its' IT department, can and should control their
machines, network, and what their employees do with same. The PC is a tool
to enable worker productivity. The machines, and all the bits and bytes on
them belong to the company; for the benefit of the company.
Flash Drives are notorious carriers of virii.
If an employee does not like the policy; the employee is free to find
another job with a company with a different IT policy.
JMHO.
Best,
Duncan
At 19:06 01/15/2008 -0500, you wrote:
It is not always a security risk for a user to attach a flash drive. What,
you think everyone there is an idiot but you? Please explain how
connecting a flash drive to a PC means they are doing anything but
working? Get real people. ARe you glued to your work every minute you
are there? Do you really think people are drones who shouldn't touch
"your" machines unless they are "working".
Ben Ruset wrote:
Yes you most certainly prevent people from attaching any sort of device
to a computer.
How is this playing God if these are corporate PC's? Users plugging in
ipods, flash drives, etc. is a security risk. End users should not be
using their company owned computers for anything but doing work.
Anthony Q. Martin wrote:
One of the big things I'm looking forward to is the new ability to block
hardware installation by device ID via GPO. I would absolutely love to
prevent people from attaching their iPods to machines on my network...\
You can't prevent people from attaching their iPods to their machines.
Perhaps you can prevent them from using them as they are intended to be
used....
But why do you need to play god?
