NASA is the latest organisation to clearly outline its policies on use of non-authorised USB flash drives and other removable media.

NASA CIO Jonathan Pettus issued a memo last week, instructing employees in good practice with removable storage. He stated they should not use personally-owned USB drives on government computers; nor use government-owned removable media devices on personal machines or machines that don’t belong to the agency; not to put unknown devices into ANY systems; and to ensure systems are fully patched and updated.

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Here’s an interesting experiment that was done by a security consultant and writer for the US online security portal, Dark Reading back in summer 2006.

The experiment looked at if a company’s employees would try to see what data was on an unsecured USB flash drive that they found in their company car park.

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