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2004-07-24 Home Front: WoT

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Posted by Steve White 2004-07-24 12:04:54 AM|| || Front Page|| [3 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 Think USB, DOE-boys... Even the common Swiss Army Knife might be a threat to National Security, and I don't mean the sharp pointy bits... Now, so far, the toothbrushes don't seem to store anything but latent Gingivitis... though, if you run across one of these you should send the guy home, he's spending waaay too much time at the lab, heh.

Posted by .com 2004-07-24 12:35:15 AM|| 2004-07-24 12:35:15 AM|| Front Page Top

#2 Already off limits at the classified facilities that I know of:

Cameras
Cell Phones
Transmitters of any kind
Pagers
Voice Recorders (including digital ones)
Radios/boomboxes, car radios (can't bring them in)
PDAs
Thumb Drives
Memory devices of any kind (Compact Flash, etc)
Laptops
Hard Drives
Floppy Disks
Modems
DVDs of any kind.
Data CDs of any kind.
Recorded or blank CDRoms/CD-RW's
(neither data nor music nor MP3)
Calculators with alphanumeric memory capability
Anything with wireless or Infared capability
MP3 players, memory or hd based ones, incl iPods
Cassette tapes nor players

And CD Players are banned if they can do anything other than play a normal audio CD (i.e. must not be able to play SACD, no MP3 CDs, no DVD-Audio etc, nor should they hook to anything other than a headphone, nor should they have a radio or be capable of recording).

For a while all music CDs had to be registered upon entry, checked into the security office, stamped "UNCLASSIFIED" and given a serial number. They could then checked out to the person who owned them - and were forbidden to remove them from the property.

We can now at least remove commercially made music CDs from the property to take them home as long as we show them at the guard desk.

Why the hell anyone working with Nuc secrets is under any less restriction is beyond me.

Posted by OldSpook 2004-07-24 12:47:54 AM|| 2004-07-24 12:47:54 AM|| Front Page Top

#3 Some dipstick took one and has a "neat" mp3 jukebox in his office I bet you anything.

Posted by FlameBait93268 2004-07-24 1:11:40 AM|| 2004-07-24 1:11:40 AM|| Front Page Top

#4 I have a watch that stores alphanumeric characters. Think the guard at the entrance would suspect anything? :)

Posted by Bomb-a-rama 2004-07-24 2:51:48 AM|| 2004-07-24 2:51:48 AM|| Front Page Top

#5 Actually, the guards have been put on notice to look for the new USB data watches, and to stop anyone wearing those from entering, or exiting the building .

Posted by OldSpook 2004-07-24 11:36:44 AM|| 2004-07-24 11:36:44 AM|| Front Page Top

#6 And:

Watches with data entry ability (even if just phone numbers).
Furby.

All transmitter devices are prohibited, which makes sense until you consider: your car key fob??? Oops.

None of our workstation computers even HAVE removable drives (or they've been removed). The floppies have their connectors pulled. Ditto the CD-ROMs. The only way to get a disk is to send the files to IT and have them burn a disk.

But of course you can just stick Dox in Sox and walk out.

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