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USB drives are also good for storing changing files that need to be moved between work and home. You can burn more files to a CD but that takes more than 30 sec

by IChrisI 16y ago

USB drives are also good for storing changing files that need to be moved between work and home. You can burn more files to a CD but that takes more than 30 seconds,

athom 16y ago
A company where I used to work got paranoid about its employees walking out the door with its precious intellectual property on those things, and installed something called 'Hibun' to prevent just that. From then on, anyone who "needed" to move data to a USB drive had to use one specially made for the Hibun system, and a "key" to permit transfer in a form that could only be read on another "authorized" computer. That was... fun.
- eru 16y ago
  And, let me guess, it was probably trivial to break for the black hat guys?
  - athom 16y ago
    I can't say I really know. I didn't hear about anyone breaking it, certainly.
BrandonM 16y ago
> You can burn more files to a CD but that takes more than 30 seconds, CDs are 700MB. You can get GB+ USB thumb drives for free.
- eru 16y ago
  Perhaps IChrisI was a bit sloppy, and actually meant DVD-R?