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Pentagon Hit by Unprecedented Cyber Attack (foxnews.com)
4 points by gibsonf1 on Nov 21, 2008 | hide | past | favorite | 2 comments



"The Pentagon has suffered from a cyber attack so alarming that it has taken the unprecedented step of banning the use of external hardware devices, such as flash drives and DVD's, FOX News has learned."

WTF? Does this mean that they actually let pentagon employees bring flash drives to work and plug them into their computers?

The fact that banning such devices is considered to be "unprecedented" is proof positive that it's a good thing Bush is going to be un-presidented in January! :-)


It might not be so much as allowed as it was never explicitly disallowed.




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