[VRWCTexan]

Yes - but it also says “The previously classified incident”.....

...sorry if this is all Somehow OLD news to everyone on FR

Personally I do not recall seeing it reported

[La Lydia]

I was not talking to you, I was responding to DBrow, who said it might be old news recycled. If people would take time out of their busy schedules to ACTUALLY READ THE ARTICLE it might be easier to have these conversations. The article says the lapse happened in 2008, but now they are allowing limited use of flash drives again. I don’t remember seeing the story before, either.

[1COUNTER-MORTER-68]

I think this is an old story,,,

I never read where the flash drive came from though,,,

Did somebody swap out a clean one for one with a Kootie ?...

[Future Snake Eater]

It is old news. Operation Rampart Yankee was the response to it, and ever since, no USB thumb drives have been allowed on government computers.

NATO still allows them under some painful use requirements, but it's still better than the standard Army response that is less about solving the problem than it is bludgeoning the problem to death with a blunt instrument.