Limited-use policy requires approved hardware with unit commander’s OK. Although the U.S. Defense Department has lifted its ban on the use of thumb drives, the new rule greatly restricts their use and ...

The military has lifted its all-out ban of removable media, but will continue to have some limits on their use, including the prohibition of non-government owned devices. "After extensive testing of ...

Ban could be the result of a virus from the nonclassified network moving to the Pentagon's classified system via a thumb drive. The Defense Department has temporarily banned the use of thumb drives ...