MidnightShadow
Night Ninja
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Yeah, I understand exactly what cloning is. There's a difference between copying/cloning for a legitimate purpose and for stealing/espionage. If the person handing out the punishment can't tell the difference, they don't need to be in that position.You two must not realize that cloning is simply copying. Copying software off a government harddrive is well, espionage if looked at it that way regardless of the purpose of copying. Hence my explanation before and why we have systems in place to make sure nobody is cloning drives. It's up to whoever is doing the punishing if they want to call it that. Working for a government facility dealing with straight politics and working for a military defense contract that also deals with classified data are two different ballparks. I mean, I can get fired if I accidentally open my camera app on my phone and the wrong person sees it. Don't have to take a picture, there's no plausible deniability.
Regardless, I understand the method that you guys are using and so it's not a problem for your team. Even so, you can still clone a baseline of the OS with the software required without any classified data being on it for a legitimate IT purpose. Nobody in their right mind should consider that espionage. Either way, it's a moot point since you use SCCM.