by thebrookster on Thu Apr 13, 2006 11:54 pm
Email recieved from David Millar of IT Services on 17th Oct 2005:
"Making the removal option available opens up a number of other vulnerabilities
that we're not too keen on.
I normally just wait a couple of minutes after the drive light goes out, and
just pull it - and I've never lost anything. If you're concerned about
something important, shut the machine down and pull the flash drive out after
it's switched off. (Then turn it on again ready for the next person to use.)
If it's something really, really important, you should save it on your home
drive rather than on vulnerable removable media."
Personally I find using a USB stick in the above fashion safer than using my "home drive", at least I can normally get access to it which is dubious with the home drive at times.