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State Agency to Destroy Unauthorized USB Drives

Posted by Zonk on from the what-they-don't-know-won't-hurt-you dept.

Lucas123 writes "The State of Washington's Division of Child support has forced hundreds of workers to turn in personal USB flash drives and has instead begun issuing corporate-style USB drives. The goal is to centrally monitor, configure and prevent unauthorized access to storage devices. So far about 150 common drives have been issued. The agency eventually plans to destroy all existing thumb drives collected as part of the security policy change."

4 of 179 comments (clear)

  1. Re:Misleading summary by davmoo · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    You read the article??!! What are you, some kind of damned troublemaker?! :-)

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  2. Re:RTFA by kramulous · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    That 'smoking crack' was some of the funniest stuff I've seen. Oh, and comment was useful but a waste of time ... the RTFA bit anyhow.

    Smiles

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  3. Re:Misleading summary by iphayd · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Dude,

    We've all had pictures of your wife for years.

  4. Re:Good by penguin_dance · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    (2) being completely ineffective because I have to listen to my hyper coworker who has no inside voice screaming all day.

    Sounds like she has several imaginary ones though!

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