Security breech worry

**xoggoth** · 29 July 2008, 22:18

Worked at a few of those, Filton, Cheltenham, Chatham, Preston, Birmingham + naval stuff. Aircraft and MOD generally are living death. Boy, am I glad I retired.

I always get into a tizzy imagining all sorts of dire consequences of things too but it never seems to happen. Even if there is some central logging of such things I doubt anyone looks at it.

**Moose423956** · 29 July 2008, 22:21

Originally posted by gingerjedi View Post

I'm currently working on a large aerospace site where I require SC security clearance, I was told that USB sticks are not allowed but as I was frustrated at how much documentation I had to get through so I decided to copy it to take home... who's gonna know??

I plugged the stick in forgetting about the utilities folder that contains a few apps that may be frowned upon, instantly Symantec flagged up 'ProduKey' (windows product key viewer).

Am I fliped? How long before I feel the long arm of the Security guy??

Or am I being paranoid???

If I was you I'd emigrate to Russia now, taking your USB stick with you.

**Diver** · 29 July 2008, 22:21

Originally posted by gingerjedi View Post

Am I fliped? How long before I feel the long arm of the Security guy??

Or am I being paranoid???

You are so screwed

PS. Don't mention the Chinese, Russian or Altairan embassies

oops! They are probably reading this right now

**scooterscot** · 29 July 2008, 22:36

Originally posted by gingerjedi View Post

Am I fliped? How long before I feel the long arm of the Security guy??

Or am I being paranoid???

Yes you are being paranoid.

I'd be more concerned about being found with material I'd copied onto the stick to take home with me. Especially if it is were classified.

**Peoplesoft bloke** · 29 July 2008, 22:42

Colleague of mine got nabbed for this - they let him off with a stern warning on a first offence. I have always been able to mail stuff to myself for reading - provided it wasn't protectively marked (which it wasn't)

**Diver** · 29 July 2008, 22:47

Last edited by Peoplesoft bloke : Today at 23:43. Reason: syntax

Fear

**Peoplesoft bloke** · 29 July 2008, 23:07

you ain't seen me, right?

**Diver** · 29 July 2008, 23:11

Originally posted by Peoplesoft bloke View Post

you ain't seen me, right?

And your real name & address is?

**NickFitz** · 30 July 2008, 01:59

If they're that concerned, and assuming it's a Windoze site as you're running Symantec, you should be able to divert attention to the sysadmin who has failed to deploy a group policy disabling USB ports.

They did that (the USB-disabling-group-policy) without any notice once at a broadcaster I was working at, which left a content manager with a bunch of photos of the band whose interview was being played out on the network show that evening unable to get the pics off his camera. In the end, I got them onto my MacBook (which wasn't allowed on the network, but they'd gracefully provided an ADSL line for my exclusive use), zipped them, then FTPd them to one of my web servers. I then emailed a link to the file on the web site to the content manager (who was sat opposite me), and he downloaded the file, unzipped it, and could then get the photos onto the show's site ready to go live as the show was broadcast.

You may want to try a similar approach in future, although if you're not supposed to use a USB stick, heaven alone knows what the consequences would be for uploading it all to a web server... if they ever realised

Security breech worry