Re: Looking for USENET client recommendations for Windows

On 1/23/2025 5:24 PM, Jay Morris wrote:

On 1/23/2025 6:59 AM, Bice wrote:

It's possible that
some newsreader could be installed standalone on a USB stick configured
so its files are also kept there. The key (no pun) would be if you
could avoid any registry requirements. If so, then you could just carry
it back and forth.

Unfortunately, we're not allowed to plug anything (other than a
government furnished mouse) into the USB slots.  We're not even
allowed to charge our personal phones or anything like that via USB.
It's very locked down. I'm actually kind of surprised that I'm able to
get to GMail on my work computer.

 And it not just a policy thing. There's monitoring software at network operations that detects an unregistered USB device[1], locks out the computer, and alerts network ops. Then your supervisor gets an email and you end up taking a 1-2 hour cyber security class that would get any Spectre agent talking.
 At least this was the process when I retired from Air Force civil service in 2016.
 [1]And the USB device is registered per computer.

Once, I found apparently new, blister packed
USB sticks left in my cubicle. I assumed this was an attempt
to see if I'd be dumb enough to plug them in.
While I *could* plug in a USB stick, if it was not
already registered, it would be automatically formatted, and an
encrypted storage area created, with a centrally managed key. Thus,
I could store stuff, and even take it to another corporate computer,
but could not read it on a non-company computer.
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