News UK military bans iPods

Get those ear-buds out you 'oribble little man!

This from ZDNet:

Music fans, beware: the Ministry of Defence has become the latest organisation to add the iPod to its list of high-tech security risks.

The pocket-sized digital music player, which can store thousands of songs, is one of a series of banned gadgets that the military will no longer allow into most sections of its headquarters in the UK and abroad.

Devices with large storage capabilities -- most notably those with a Universal Serial Bus (or USB) plug used to connect to a computer -- have been treated with greater suspicion of late by government agencies and corporations alike.

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apparently this is just a made up romour and is infact false

this from the beeb

 

Most high security areas have a simple policy: anything can be brought in; nothing can be taken out. Take any storage medium (Floppy disk, laptop, pendrive, iPod, etc) in and you will not be able to remove it from the building. When I used to go in that type of estabilishment I had to make sure I had nothing I wouldn't mind having removed from me permanently.

 

In relation to this whole iPod ban thing I've just seen this on the register, pretty funny....

The recent revelation that the Ministry of Defence has banned the use of iPods on its premises highlights the growing perceived threat from portable data-capturing devices.

The MoD is not alone in suffering a bout of Cold-War-style security paranoia. SecureWave recently warned that USB memory sticks represented a real menace to the future of western civilisation. Websense, meanwhile, votes work-based personal storage sites as the thing most likely to succeed in bringing your organisation crashing down around your ears.

We all know what's to blame - "USB-friendly" Windows XP. In the old days, you had to stick a floppy in a machine to nick data. Later you had to burn the data onto a CD. Now, though, you can just plug a USB memory stick into a machine and walk of with your employer's financial records. Chilling stuff.

We at The Register, however, believe that there are even greater threats to corporate data integrity - some using methods so simple that they will freeze solid the blood of any right-minded CEO.

For example, one Vulture Central hack recently copied an email address from the screen of his PC and walked out of the office with it before the sophisticated CCTV system had a chance to react. He used what is known in the hacking community as a "pencil" which - when deployed in conjunction with "paper" can be used to record huge amounts of confidential data. The "paper" can then be folded into a bundle small enough to be easily concealed in the pocket.

Read on here for a chuckle

 

rofl jetsetjimbo

imagine if companies actually took that seriously...