@stopcrazypp: If they need a CD drive to move top secret data in 2010, something is wrong.

@wellsje: Comic book store owners with delusions of grandeur.

@rashad123us: You just ruined it for me.

Wowzers! If that is what C-3PO really looked like, I might have actually enjoyed Episode I, because I would have been distracted enough to not be totally annoyed by little Anakin Skywalker.

Too bad I don't have my sister on my gift list this year. The Rainbow OneStep would be a perfect gift for someone who went to buy a cell phone and told the person at the store to show her the phone with the fewest features. She used to have a Polaroid, and this would put her back into her non-digital comfort zone.

@Eltigro: I totally forgot about the disc cameras. Remember the big PR announcement that this film was going to revolutionize personal photography. Too bad the film was incredibly expensive to get developed, and the quality was crap because the film frames were about 1/5 of the size of 35mm.

@bender123: I've not played with the new color Nook yet. It's primarily supposed to be a book reader, and while B&N has apparently not buried away the Tablet side of it, they also haven't gone out of their way to highlight it. It will be interesting to see if this takes off as an inexpensive tablet, or an e-book…

@ohnoitsaspider: The main topic is about e-book readers, but that said, the Nook runs Android.

@minibeardeath: I misdirected a comment to you. But you are right, this system was nowhere close to being secure. A system with access to top secret data this embarrassing should be behind several firewalls on a private limited access network, and have its' USB/Firewire/SD ports disabled, and definitely should not…

@Curves: As Joe Walsh would say:

@minibeardeath: The documents were purportedly stolen, deliberately and with intent over a long period of time by an Army Intelligence Analyst. So maybe the CD burner should have been disabled, but if the analyst was so hellbent on leaking this data, it would have most likely gotten out anyway.

@jma89: Data needs to be classified: public, private, confidential, top secret. Not all cases require an iron fist, and many companies couldn't be efficient without the ability to plug in external devices. You can steer people away from doing the wrong thing through awareness and policy, i.e. turning off autorun…

@Edd White: Yeah, there really needs to be a better term for that. Taking it literally, I'm getting a lot of action.

@AgentRockstar: I'm going to Tweet you do death :-(

@minibeardeath: Yes, but from my experience anyway, people will start clicking and run the program. If absolutely nothing pops up when a USB device is plugged in, people are less likely to go snooping.

@vinod1978: That's the rock solid approach! You have to balance security concerns with usability for the end user. In some cases, this would be necessary or at least prudent.

@Curves: Have a Guinness or four and your worries will go away. I love Guinness.

Great article. One comment: it is best practice to turn off autorun for external devices. People will stick anything they find into a USB port on their computer if it is marked "free screen savers" of anything else enticing. This can lead to really bad consequences. I use a similar technique as part of my job…

@dotyoureyes: Google probably isn't in a rush to give iPhone users a Plain Old Telephone Service, because them and Apple are having a time out.

@bdinger: Clearly the U.S. wants this guy, but it doesn't appear that his arrest was due to U.S. pressure. He turned himself in, so he wasn't resisting arrest, but he's just not doing himself any favours in court. Giving a P.O. box as an address? He might as well have said he lives on 1234 Boogie Boogie Avenue. No…