More on Thumb Drives

Lisa Schlosser, who runs the Environmental Protection Agency's Office of Information Collection, who also serves as a reservist with the Amy's 1st Information Operations outfit, told me that she believes thumb drives serve a real function in easily transporting data from point "A" to point "B." Stick a drive on one computer, download a file, take the drive, go to another computer and copy a file from the thumb drive to that computer.

Schlosser, who served as the CIO at the Housing and Urban Development Department until signing on with Office of Information Collection this year, agreed with Meyerrose that the abuse of thumb drives was "a people problem," and quickly added it is the job of top IT managers to ensure the worker bees have the tools they need to get the job done.

Maybe Meyerrose and Schlosser can put their thinking caps together to solve the thumb drive problem.