| John Rogers |
07-08-2021 12:17 PM |
Here's a little tidbit to make you worry. 4 or 5 years ago when I was teaching evening classes on basic computer security as well as a class for databases design I had a student who was the Information Systems Officer at the Sub Base San Diego and on one of the nights were were discussing disabling DVD drives, USB ports and such to prevent the bad boys and girls from breaking in. The student had been to a big time security seminar in Washington and they were demo'd a thumb drive with a copy of the Windows OS, boot instructions and a bunch of other utilities so a user could put the thumb drive in, reboot the computer then take their time searching for passwords, documents, databases or other nice to grab files! If out of time a reboot could be done after pulling the thimb drive and the PC would then wait for the normal user to login and grad that persons info and it would all be sent to the bad guy. Of course my students all laughed and said no way so the following class I got a laptop from the school and "Bill" did a demo......scary!
So that is why Camp Pendleton, Sub Base and MCRD San Diego ( I know of for sure) ALL have DVD hardware removed and the USB ports disabled and alarmed so if someone just sticks a thumb drive in the opening an alarm goes off and the building gets locked down that had the offense! Does it work.....yes the security is tested yearly on a usually unsuspecting civil servant and all is good to the world.
John
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