Military USB Ban Meant to Stop 'Adversary Attacks'. The military isn't banning the use of "thumb" drives, CDs, and other data storage media just because of a simple, troublesome worm. It's banning the disks and drives because this worm demonstrates how vulnerable the armed force's networks are to enemy attack.
"It is apparent that over time, our posture to protect networks and associated information infrastructure has not kept pace with adversary efforts to penetrate, disrupt, interrupt, exploit or destroy critical elements of the GIG [Global Information Grid]," reads an e-mail from the head of U.S. Strategic Command, obtained by Inside Defense. more... http://blog.wired.com/defense/2008/11/military-usb-ba.html _______________________________________________ NetBehaviour mailing list [email protected] http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour
