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rt_hat
Aug 3, 2003
YARRRR
I've got a stupid question about USB memory sticks and security.

Currently I work in an environment where we have a secure network. However, sometimes we need to transfer files between our corporate network and devices on our secure network. Say we're building a server for our secure network for instance.

We have a few USB memory sticks that are exclusively used for this situation. As in they never stray from our secure network and are virus scanned.

I understand that if a manufacturer or someone put in modified drivers on that device, they could do a lot of malicious things without anyone noticing. Should I be paranoid when buying USB memory sticks from well known manufacturers (Lexar, Kingston, etc) ? Would probably not use a freebie USB memory stick from a convention.

Or would it be safer to use memory cards like CF or SD through a USB memory card reader, assuming I trust the memory card reader ?

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