On 06/14/2012 12:19 AM, Sven Burmeister wrote:
Am Mittwoch, 13. Juni 2012, 17:25:40 schrieb Lew Wolfgang:
The use of USB sticks is really not something to be seriously considered. Not everyone has the ability to use this medium.
On Wed, 2012-06-13 at 19:26 +1000, Basil Chupin wrote: percentage? I don't know the total percentage, but the US Department of Defense has banned usage of memory sticks on DoD owned systems since 2008. External USB rotating disks are also banned unless pre-registered and scanned for malware. This certainly affects many hundreds of thousands of computers, a non-trivial percentage of which are running openSuSE. I can't comment on
On 06/13/2012 03:24 PM, Hans Witvliet wrote: the rationality of them doing this, but it is what it is.
Of course they are doing this for security reasons, and I bet that many private companies have similar bans. They block (booting from) USB-stick but allow to boot from CD? Does not make sense to me from a security point of view.
Sven Come on how many times does the DoD install new operating systems? I am sure it won't be openSUSE maybe there own based on the linux kernel. so using the DoD belies all logic
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