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Infinitec Infinite USB Memory Drive review - interesting concept
- stcredzero 16y agoIf the backing connection was to 3G this would be both massively cool and a massively bad idea. The bad part: wifi and mobile broadband are already a big potential security risk. A form factor in the shape of a USB drive would be hard to spot. The good part: if they built this with 3G and used the cloud as the backing store, it could really be an infinite USB drive!
- Groxx 16y agoOh that would be awesome... the Dropbox USB drive.
- aaronblohowiak 16y ago"wifi and mobile broadband are already a big potential security risk" -- not if you use TLS
- stcredzero 16y agoWrong scenario. Black Hats can use it to repeatedly breach the physical security of an internal network. Plant a WiFi or mobile broadband relay, and you only have to physically be there the first time.
- sfphotoarts 16y agoInteresting idea, but one of the uses I have for a thumb drive is to store things when I don't have access to wifi. If I have wifi then there are a myriad of other possibilities.
- Groxx 16y agoFor tl;drs: wireless device pairs with your computer to stream files, identifies as a USB drive to whatever you plug it into. But it's buggy beta-quality nigh-crap disguised as a finished device. Interesting idea indeed, but guaranteed to be less cool than it sounds like under even the best production quality. Wireless is hardly plug-and-play at all times; to be reliable, you must create your own network that it can connect to. Expecting to reliably run a network share through any random network is expecting friendly gnomes riding ponies to leap from that random network's routers and magically transfer your data for you.