Article: United States: Defense department looking at flash drive, social networking security.

Byline: kusumv03

The Department of Defense may partially lift a ban on USB flash drives, which had been abolished in November 2008 because of worms and viruses spreading across defense networks from infected USB thumb drives.

Military officials enacted the ban to protect sensitive information from data theft, but the blanket ban on flash drives causes inconveniences for troops using the devices to carry data in the field, CNET News reported.

Robert Carey, chief information officer for the Department of the Navy, posted on the Navy's CIO blog that some uses of flash drives will be permitted, although the department is assessing whether to allow ...

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