Military Bans Removable Media After WikiLeaks Disclosures

cgriffin21 writes "The Pentagon is taking matters into its own hands to prevent the occurrence of another WikiLeaks breach with removable media ban, preventing soldiers from using USB sticks, CDs or DVDs on any systems or servers. The directive prohibiting removable media followed the recent publication of more than 250,000 diplomatic cables, which were leaked to whistleblower Web site WikiLeaks at the end of last month by a military insider."

Revival of the floppy disk!

[LiquidCoooled]

Thank god they didn't ban floppy disks.

I knew these bad boys would come in handy one day!

Re:Revival of the floppy disk!

[Anonymous Coward]

The problem is that they've read the evil overlord list and are padding all files to 1.45 MB in size...

Re:Old news and misleading title

[ColdWetDog]

According to TFA (which I just read) it WAS part of policy (after a bunch of worms) then it got dropped because it was hard to move data around (duh) and now it's back again with the acknowledgment that it's going to be harder to move data around. (duh).

So I still don't get it - somebody finds something on SIPRNET. The copy it to a USB drive and give it to somebody else off the secured network, then plug it back into the 'secured' network again next week when the newest bunch of porn shows up? Sounds most secure.

Maybe they just ought tweet everything. At least the 140 character limit should slow people down a bit.

Re:horse

[jpmorgan]

Oh, I don't know about that. The US military still has a lot of horses left.

Re:horse

[Cryacin]

Plenty of asses to boot too.