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.
That is true, and I could never understand the rationale behind the initial ban, which applied to flash drives, but not other media such as CDs, DVDs and portable USB drives. I suppose if someone had taken the data by printing it out on paper they would have banned paper, simply as an earnest of their desire to "fix" the problem. And all of this applied to the unsecured portion of the military network, where classified information is not supposed to be stored or transmitted.