Soldiers, you are now cleared to use your thumb drives again. U.S. Strategic Command has lifted its ban on the tiny drives, memory sticks, CDs and other "removable flash media" on military networks.

The repeal, first reported by InsideDefense.com, may be good news for troops, who depend on the drives to move data in bandwidth-starved locations. But it may be good news for hackers, too. The original network security concerns which prompted the ban haven't really been addressed, one Strategic Command cyber defense specialist tells Danger Room: "Not much changed. StratCom simply does not have the support to enforce such a ban indefinitely." READ MORE

[Sources: Wired.com, Inside Defense]

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