Following Whistleblower Leaks: Pentagon Bans Use of Removable Media or Face Court Martial
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Following the Whistleblower leaks that embarrassed the US Government, the U.S. military ordered its troops to stop using CDs, DVDs, thumb drives and every other form of removable media -- or risk a court martial.
Maj. Gen. Richard Webber, commander of Air Force Network Operations, issued the December 3 "Cyber Control Order" -- obtained by Danger Room -- which directs airmen to "immediately cease use of removable media on all systems, servers, and stand alone machines residing on SIPRNET," the Defense Department's secret network.
Similar directives have gone out to the military's other branches.
The whistleblower Wikileaks on the 26th of November, started releasing some 400 thousand US embassy cables that constituted a scandal for the US foreign policy.
Following the Whistleblower leaks that embarrassed the US Government, the U.S. military ordered its troops to stop using CDs, DVDs, thumb drives and every other form of removable media -- or risk a court martial.
Maj. Gen. Richard Webber, commander of Air Force Network Operations, issued the December 3 "Cyber Control Order" -- obtained by Danger Room -- which directs airmen to "immediately cease use of removable media on all systems, servers, and stand alone machines residing on SIPRNET," the Defense Department's secret network.
Similar directives have gone out to the military's other branches.
The whistleblower Wikileaks on the 26th of November, started releasing some 400 thousand US embassy cables that constituted a scandal for the US foreign policy.
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