[Web4lib] Disable USB drives on public computers

[travelinlibrarian.8248287 at bloglines.com]

O.k. I'll bite. What do you have on a public computer that you don't want
someone copying to a USB drive. Further, as a patron, I want to run my portable
Firefox and would be suitably upset if you didn't let me. Never mind the fact
that the file I need to work on using your public computer is probably on
my USB drive so you've just stopped me from finishing the paper that's due
tomorrow.

Michael Sauers
Internet Trainer, BCR

--- Brian Stubbs <bstubbs at rci.rutgers.edu
wrote:
This article provides a way to do this, while still allowing the use
of 
> USB peripherals such as mouse, keyboard or scanner.  This only disables

> the storage drivers.  This could have uses in preventing users from 
> copying data from the computer, or running un-approved software from a 

> portable device.
> 
> http://www.intelliadmin.com/blog/2006/04/disable-usb-drives.html

> -- 
> Brian Stubbs
> Supervisor II, Alexander Library
> Access Services
Dept, Rutgers University Libraries
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