Longhorn Will Have Ability to Ban External Storage Devices

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Longhorn Will Have Ability to Ban External Storage Devices

Posted by michael on Thursday September 9, 2004 @05:54AM from the no-ipod-for-you dept.

slashdotbs writes "CNET is reporting that Microsoft will allow IT managers to block devices such as USB memory keys and - shockingly! - iPods. The article refers to 'the threat posed by digital storage devices'."

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Heh by bshort404 · 2004-09-09 05:58 · Score: 0, Flamebait

Worst. Idea. Ever.

It's going to be awesome when someone comes up with a virus that locks down all the USB ports and then starts doing things like uninstalling the CD-ROM.

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bah! by Triumph+The+Insult+C · 2004-09-09 05:59 · Score: 0, Flamebait

microsoft's implementation of this feature will be so buggy, it has already been cracked

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Re:News for nerds, free stuff for the editors? by zangdesign · 2004-09-09 06:05 · Score: 0, Flamebait

Yes, but this is /. where everything that restricts is viewed in the worst possible light, and any technology is viewed in the best possible light, unless it's technology that disables rather than enables, unless it disables something that disables ... and so on and so forth, ad infinitum.

Don't try to analyze it. We're all candidates for tin-foil hattery. Even you.

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Re:Here comes the SHOCKER! by cavemanf16 · 2004-09-09 06:07 · Score: 1, Flamebait

I agree, michael is an ass. He's pissing and moaning that Microsoft added yet another feature??? Make such a press release about Linux and there'd be dancing in the streets over how much more secure Linux can be than Microsoft. The problem isn't Microsoft adding features - it's not allowing anyone else (software developers) to use their features that's the problem.
Re:ban in sp2 by killjoe · 2004-09-09 06:15 · Score: 0, Flamebait

Whoo Hoo. I am looking forward to a new OS from MS that will be less useful then the current one. I can't wait till they take away my ability to write to USB drives or download songs to my ipod. I mean who needs all that? Let he Mac and linux users use their fancy shmancy hipster ipods we don't want any part of those hippies.

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Re:They've got their priorities wrong by Blakey+Rat · 2004-09-09 07:13 · Score: 0, Flamebait

The point's not that it's not true, but that we've seen that joke like 70,000 times before and it's NOT FUCKING FUNNY ANYMORE.

Shit, the GNAA stuff that gets modded down as "Troll" is at least twice as funny as the stuff that gets moderated up as "funny" every damn time.

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