Easy Backup Means Security Risk
With the advent of USB flash drives and USB hard drives making backups as easy as drag and drop, that creates a security nightmare for lawyers and network administrators.
Picture this, a visiting attorney comes to your office for a deposition. He asks to use the phone and you put him in an office with a phone on the desk. While he’s in there, he can slip a keychain USB flash drive in the computer and downloads half your computer network in about 2 minutes. Unethical? Yes. Scary? Definitely. Easy to do? Absolutely.
Engadget has a story on this and shows how using an iPod or ‘Podslurping’ can be a security risk.
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