>From what I have read on the U3 enabled mass storage, I would have thought >that you would be trying to disable them from working. The security risk of >someone inserting a USB stick they found in the parking lot, placed there by >someone wanting to break into your servers. the security story I read talked >of just that, and they had access to a banks systems 15 minutes after they >opened up. The article made me think of what Trojan horse could lie within.
If you could trust everyone to not put foreign USB sticks into the SunRays, I would say why not insist on some standard by issuing approved memory sticks that you would know work in your environment, or having an approved list. Food for thought.... Jay Tuckerman -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Benoit Audet Sent: Tuesday, March 27, 2007 9:04 AM To: 'SunRay-Users mailing list' Subject: RE: [SunRay-Users] "U3-enabled" USB mass storage? Hi Tom, I did post a message recently about it. A proof of concept in an hospital here, and the client needs to have the U3 enabled USB mass storage to work, *with* the encryption enabled (sigh!). So we are currently looking to find a way to make it working flawlessly, and to be honest, we are not close from a solution yet... Is anybody out there has any hints for us on this? Ben Audet -----Message d'origine----- De : [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] De la part de Thomas L Baca Envoyé : 26 mars 2007 21:24 À : SunRay-Users mailing list Objet : [SunRay-Users] "U3-enabled" USB mass storage? These "U3-enabled" USB sticks are starting to bite us in a big way. Apparently, they are becoming more and more popular. For those of you not familiar with the technology (http://www.u3.com/smart/), these sticks apparently have two partitions: the first partition is a small simulated CD-ROM containing windows autorun stuff, including a special little "launcher" app, and the second partition is the normal large filesystem for storing your stuff. Apparently, sometimes there is also some kind of little encryption app on the "launcher" partition which controls access to the filesystem on the "storage" partition. Well, these things are playing hell with our Sun Ray uttsc sessions. Sometimes we see both partitions and sometimes only one. Besides users being confused by the lack of their "normal" windows autorun behavior, some are not able to see their files at all. We can't seem to get completely consistent behavior in testing with some of these devices. I suppose that each vendor's U3 config may be a little different. sigh. what a proprietary mess to make of something as ubiquitous as USB mass storage... I know I've seen at least one recent post about this stuff, but I don't think there were any responses. Maybe these things are becoming popular enough that the issue will become more common... cheers, -tom _______________________________________________ SunRay-Users mailing list [email protected] http://node1.filibeto.org/mailman/listinfo/sunray-users _______________________________________________ SunRay-Users mailing list [email protected] http://node1.filibeto.org/mailman/listinfo/sunray-users ****************************************************************************************** The information contained in this message, including attachments, may contain privileged or confidential information that is intended to be delivered only to the person identified above. If you are not the intended recipient, or the person responsible for delivering this message to the intended recipient, Alltel requests that you immediately notify the sender and asks that you do not read the message or its attachments, and that you delete them without copying or sending them to anyone else. _______________________________________________ SunRay-Users mailing list [email protected] http://node1.filibeto.org/mailman/listinfo/sunray-users
