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Old May 14th 18, 04:28 PM posted to alt.comp.freeware,alt.comp.hardware.pc-homebuilt,alt.windows7.general,alt.comp.os.windows-10,alt.conspiracy
Frank Slootweg
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Default [BBC] IBM workers banned from using USB sticks

Diesel wrote:
Frank Slootweg newsdacd4.9uk.1@ID-
201911.user.individual.net Sun, 13 May 2018 20:10:36 GMT in
alt.comp.freeware, wrote:

Libor Striz wrote:
Jason Wrote in message:

I recall a few years ago reading that the Pentagon had
such a policy in place and had filled USB sockets with
epoxy to enforce it.

Quite a disadvantage if one is using a USB mouse or keyboard.


That's why insert_diety invented PS/2!


Have you seen a recent motherboard that has it?


It was/is 1) tongue-in-cheek, 2) in the given historical (hysterical?)
context, 3) about IBM internal use (i.e. their MBs would have what they
want/need) and 4) irrelevant for locked-down internal systems. And Andy
Burns answered your question.