[Web4lib] USB Hard Drives - second try

[Hankinson, Andrew]

There's no real difference other than capacity - a hard drive can fit much more than a USB Key drive, so the customer could install a larger number of portable applications on the drive and circumvent any "lockdown" you might have on the internal hard drive, such as the installation of an instant messenger client, IRC, or others.

All of these can be accomplished given a large-enough flash drive too.

Andrew

-----Original Message-----
From: web4lib-bounces at webjunction.org [mailto:web4lib-bounces at webjunction.org] On Behalf Of Connie Hudson
Sent: June 7, 2006 12:46 PM
To: web4lib at webjunction.org
Subject: [Web4lib] USB Hard Drives - second try

This is my second attempt to send this message. If the other one shows up, please accept my apology.

I just had a situation I'd have not considered before. We saw a customer using a USB external hard drive on one of the public computers. We allow the use of USB flash drives so would allowing someone to use a USB external hard drive be any different? I have the BIOS set to only boot from the computer hard drive. Any additional security issues I should think about?
 
Thanks for any advice.
Connie


Connie Hudson
Systems Coordinator
Flower Mound Library
Flower Mound, TX
connie.hudson at flower-mound.com
 
The grass may look greener on the other side, but it's just as hard to cut. -Little Richard  

_______________________________________________
Web4lib mailing list
Web4lib at webjunction.org
http://lists.webjunction.org/web4lib/