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Ha! If I worked at IBM they would never catch me. My flash drive is disguised as a tiny sports car! Foolproof!

Anyways, did IBM have a big leak recently or something? This seems rather draconian to have been put into place without some fairly strong motivations.

Anyways, did IBM have a big leak recently or something?

Yes, this is almost certainly about leaks to publications such as El Reg. Eg. https://www.theregister.co.uk/2018/02/26/ibm_gives_services_...

Wow, wouldn't want valuable corporate secrets such as your particular form of Agile leaking to outside sources. How devastating.

when i viewed that link there was an ibm advertisement on the top and an interstitial one as well. couldn't help but chuckle.

Slack instead of email?

That's hilarious.

Not to mention sad, soulcrushing, and generally illiterate.

I too thought of it as being draconian at first but come to think of it, USB drives seem much less important nowadays than they seemed back in 2007. They're still prolific, but they aren't thought of as a boon as they once were. Maybe IBM is onto something.

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