Comments on: Why USB Thumb Drives are Banned from DOD Networks

By: Mark

Mark — Fri, 18 Dec 2009 08:24:56 +0000

Is the ROK military still using USB thumb drives? Sounds like an executive brief of 5027 was leaked....

By: theotherguy

theotherguy — Wed, 04 Feb 2009 21:57:27 +0000

Well you shouldn't be using USB thumbsticks for any form of official work. Those things are just TOO easy to loose / misplace, and they carry a very high risk of data being stolen. And this doesn't even get near the problem with classified data.

That being said, the actual bad in most places was on all USB data devices not just flash devices. This caused quite a bit of issues as alot of data is "air gaped" from NIPR to the various classified networks, usually on large USB HDD's that are then sanitized afterwords.

And yes its a knee jerk reaction to virus being let loose on a protected network from a personal thumb drive connected to a classified system. Ohh well, worse could of happened.

By: Scott

Scott — Wed, 04 Feb 2009 12:34:20 +0000

This is sad, this means you have to trust your data to the retarded, lowest bidder monkeys, the military hires to maintain their networks. In the Navy we have NMCI, which has randomly nuked my account three times, if it wasn't for my trusty thumb drive I'd be up Duce-Creek. I guess it is time to go back to printing everything out, Welcome to the Paperless military…

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By: Mark

Mark — Sat, 22 Nov 2008 20:45:38 +0000

CalmSeas, I've got a better one…in 2001 my battalion S3 walked into the TOC and calls out, "Has anyone seen my secret documents folder?"

Yeah, that was real good when hail & farewell time came around.

By: CalmSeas

CalmSeas — Sat, 22 Nov 2008 20:37:48 +0000

No. #6:

Ever see Field Grades leve TS docs at home on the counter…leave safes open & then blame their Clerk?

Of course THEY never got in trouble, but I always keep CI's number handy to give them a hard time.

By: nospam

nospam — Sat, 22 Nov 2008 19:02:10 +0000

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By: Bones

Bones — Sat, 22 Nov 2008 17:21:12 +0000

Where I work at, they made sure you could not use them.

All USB ports were disabled

By: Mark

Mark — Sat, 22 Nov 2008 14:39:42 +0000

On one hand I've seen field grades misplacing classified thumb drives and/or sticking them into NIPR computers, and on the other hand I've seen ROK officers infecting DoD computers with viruses.

Either way, I think this is a great way to force knowledge management and use of SharePoint portals and AKO/AKO-S. It will also ease some of the pain for the company grade slave doing all the work when his field grade bosses are running around with different versions of the same project on their respective USB drives and DVDs.