I agree these are problems, but disagree they don’t have solutions.
(I was in the IDF where we did things to address these problems)
Also, the goal of defense is making offense very costly, it’s not “making offense impossible”.
We did, for example, allow data transfer, but there were limitations on it. Specifically USB drives were not allowed at all, and blocked from use on the computers themselves. If you wanted to transfer data, you couldn’t bring your own usb drive, you had to use a specific organizational protocol for it.
Sorry I’m not giving specifics here. My main point is that I’ve seen solutions to such problems in a real working air gapped network that I personally used for my development work
I agree these are problems, but disagree they don’t have solutions. (I was in the IDF where we did things to address these problems)
Also, the goal of defense is making offense very costly, it’s not “making offense impossible”.
We did, for example, allow data transfer, but there were limitations on it. Specifically USB drives were not allowed at all, and blocked from use on the computers themselves. If you wanted to transfer data, you couldn’t bring your own usb drive, you had to use a specific organizational protocol for it.
Sorry I’m not giving specifics here. My main point is that I’ve seen solutions to such problems in a real working air gapped network that I personally used for my development work