ajl @
Orion .
MC .
Duke .
EDU (Arne J. Ludwig) writes:
# > After all, if you're worried about a disaffected employee,
# > then you have to worry about him leaving all sorts of digital time
# > bombs around your internal network, leaving the building with a DAT
# > filled with proprietary data, or telephoning your competitors and
# > giving away the store.
#
# This is not strictly true. At one university where I were, all the tape
# drives and other removable media devices were kept in one room that was
# monitored by the manager of computing services, and every bit that went
# out had to be confirmed by his signature. With the advent of campus-wide
# networking this power weakened and with Internet it went away.
#
# Unimaginable today in a university, a company can easily enforce this.
Not so easily, I don't think. For example, most machines today have
SCSI interfaces built in. Locking all the company tape drives in a
room just makes the party BYOD (Bring Your Own Drive).
On my Mac, I have a 4mm tape drive that holds 2 GB of data on a tiny
little tape, and is smaller than a hardback book. I could walk in and
out with that, or just as easily with a 3.5-inch disk in the same form
factor that holds about 1 GB or so of data and has a hell of a lot
higher transfer rate.
-Brent
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