Wikileaks Fallout: Military bans thumb drives
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Fallout from the latest WikiLeaks releases continues, as the military has issued a "Cyber Control Order" to troops to immediately stop use of removable media such as thumb drives, CD's, DVD's and other portable and removable media that could be used to transfer sensitive information. The penalty for violating the order: court martial.
Wired's Danger Room obtained the Dec. 3 order, which came from Maj. Gen. Richard Webber (no, not from "Grey's Anatomy"!), and directs those under his command at Air Force Network Operations to "immediately cease use of removable media on all systems, servers, and stand alone machines residing on SIPRNET," or Secret Internet Protocol Router Network, the Defense Department’s secret network. Wired reports "similar directives have gone out to the military’s other branches."