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From: rbowman <bowman@montana.com>
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Subject: Re: My week with Linux: I'm dumping Windows for Ubuntu to see how it
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Date: 21 May 2025 03:38:16 GMT
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On Wed, 21 May 2025 00:19:02 -0000 (UTC), Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote:

> On Tue, 20 May 2025 23:37:41 +0000, Tyrone wrote:
> 
>> On May 18, 2025 at 6:52:45 PM EDT, "Lawrence D'Oliveiro"
>> <ldo@nz.invalid> wrote:
>> 
>>> On Sun, 18 May 2025 20:59:13 +0000, Tyrone wrote:
>>> 
>>>> Any USB stick in the company I work at is immedately encrypted upon
>>>> insertion.
>>> 
>>> Do you have any kind of hardware protection against malicious
>>> firmware?
>>> 
>>> <https://opensource.srlabs.de/projects/badusb>
>>> <https://github.com/robertfisk/USG/wiki>
>> 
>> No, that's not the problem I am talking about. Companies don't want
>> their stuff walking out the door on a USB drive.
> 
> They should be more concerned about it walking out the door over their
> network.

The corporate One Drive is very handy :)