British Military Bans iPods

Posted By: Knute | Jul 13th, 2004 @ 9:16 AM
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#Jul 13th, 2004 @ 9:59 AM
lars
lars

From the Simpsons version of The Shining:

Homer: No TV and no beer make Homer... something, something...
Marge: Go crazy?
Homer: Don't mind if I do! Argh, Bleck, Grr, hehehe...

No coke for the US troops. No music for the British. Let the crazyness begin.

#Jul 13th, 2004 @ 2:13 PM
sbc
sbc
Thats the thing with portable storage. It can be extremely useful but does have risks involved.

Perhaps there could be some way of having data that actually needs special software to load. Stored on the device, but no use until you get it to a machine that allows you to access it. The software could somehow be tied to the network - so if someone copied it, it would be of no use on any non networked machine.
#Jul 13th, 2004 @ 3:09 PM
warren
warren
There should be a simple, Group Policy-based method for disabling the use of USB mass storage devices.

Actually, that kind of setting should be conveniently available for each type of removable storage device:  CD ROM/CD-RW/DVD, floppy, USB/Firewire, CompactFlash, tape drive, etc. 
#Jul 13th, 2004 @ 3:43 PM
jamie
jamie
Re: British Military Bans iPods

Stop that!



Too silly!
#Jul 13th, 2004 @ 4:06 PM
Manip
Manip
They clearly listen to you jamie, they have now unbanned them -

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/3891421.stm
#Jul 13th, 2004 @ 4:13 PM
phunky_avocado
phunky_avocado
No, they state that the iPod was not banned in the first place.

Manip wrote:
They clearly listen to you jamie, they have now unbanned them -

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/3891421.stm
#Jul 14th, 2004 @ 4:50 AM
Simo
Simo
warren wrote:
There should be a simple, Group Policy-based method for disabling the use of USB mass storage devices.


Their implementing something along those lines in my corporate right now. USB ports are getting a lock down accross the enterprise.

Can't say I blame them either.

Thanks to SD cards I could walk out the building with our dev group's VSS database on my phone (Mpx200) and still have room for some production data.

#Jul 14th, 2004 @ 6:08 AM
Jaz
Jaz
i'm sure going to work in just a thong is also banned.  whats the big deal that the ipods banned?
#Jul 14th, 2004 @ 6:56 AM
Manip
Manip
A lot of MOD depts don't have any kind of dress code so I think going to work in a thong is allowed.
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