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Date: 2022-05-22 10:18 pm (UTC)I have a story about secure gov't facilities that happened to a friend of mine! He was a contractor who went around to facilities installing a specific type of software, he was fully credentialed and Secret clearance and such. This was probably late '90s/definitely pre-9/11. He's at this one site, guarded by Marines, and realizes he's missing a patch or drivers or something. Asks a military man he's working with if he can connect to his personal FTP server to download what he needs. The guy says sure. So he downloads what he needs, continues working. A few minutes later he hears the sound of a pistol slide being snicked back and a voice saying "Raise your hands and back away from the computers!" It was very quickly straightened out and he learned the value of bringing a complete set of CDs with him from site to site.
I've heard of driver problems with USB3, but that was long ago. I would have assumed they would have all been fixed by now. Though I also understand NetBSD is a bit slow updating.