Re: I see why they would do this, but ...
Risk that someone is going to download Information that can become an embarrassment to IBM in the near future...
IBM is quite capable of embarrassing themselves **without** USB drives. As for "financial and reputational damage"; the only 'damage' that could be done is to *improve* it. Can't go any lower when you've already hit bottom.
But yes, I can see the impossibility of doing firmware updates without USB sticks. There are plenty of servers now that don't have USB drives. Or perhaps they'll expect them to use USB floppy drives (unless those have been banned too). I know we had to do server installs with a USB hard drive when the network provisioning server went titsup. So I guess no more server installs. Not much of a problem if they don't have customers anymore.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
