U.S. Military Bans Removeable Media From Computers, Threatens Courts-Martial

From Rebellion:

3:44 PM (8 hours ago)Military Bans Disks, Threatens Courts-Martial to Stop New Leaksfrom feed/http://www.dixienet.org/rebellion/atom.xml by Old RebelWikiLeaks couldn't expose military crimes without 1) crimes being committed and 2) someone in the military exposing them.




Now, something's being done about the second part of the problem:





It’s too late to stop WikiLeaks from publishing thousands more classified documents, nabbed from the Pentagon’s secret network. But the U.S. military is telling its troops to stop using CDs, DVDs, thumb drives and every other form of removable media — or risk a court martial.



Maj. Gen. Richard Webber, commander of Air Force Network Operations, issued the Dec. 3 “Cyber Control Order” — obtained by Danger Room — which directs airmen to “immediately cease use of removable media on all systems, servers, and stand alone machines residing on SIPRNET,” the Defense Department’s secret network. Similar directives have gone out to the military’s other branches.



No word on what they plan to do about part one. Hmm ...