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USB Coolness!
A couple of interesting items in computer/USB news. First, a product comparison between two USB hard drives, a Seagate and an Iomega. Now, normally Im not too big a fan of Iomega. Theyve done some shady things in the past and their products just havent really seemed to fill any needs for me. I loved the concept of the Jazz drive, but DVD-R/W makes it kind of superfluous. Zip drives never did anything for me as a CD-R/W was so much more convenient, not to mention six or seven times the capacity.
Anyway, the Iomega drive is pretty cool. I could see it as being quite useful for offline backups. An additional application just occurred to me: Linksys makes a wireless device that lets you connect USB hard drives to it so that you can have additional wireless storage, this would be a perfect application as these devices are extremely small and are powered off the USB cable.
It will definitely have my attention as a possible acquisition.
http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1895,1771285,00.asp
The second interesting item is that if you have a computer with USB ports, youre vulnerable to attacks from USB drives. Basically the drivers have two problems: (1) they are written for speed, not security, and (2) they run with system-level privileges, which means that they can access EVERYTHING on your computer.
http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1895,1840141,00.asp
Anyway, the Iomega drive is pretty cool. I could see it as being quite useful for offline backups. An additional application just occurred to me: Linksys makes a wireless device that lets you connect USB hard drives to it so that you can have additional wireless storage, this would be a perfect application as these devices are extremely small and are powered off the USB cable.
It will definitely have my attention as a possible acquisition.
http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1895,1771285,00.asp
The second interesting item is that if you have a computer with USB ports, youre vulnerable to attacks from USB drives. Basically the drivers have two problems: (1) they are written for speed, not security, and (2) they run with system-level privileges, which means that they can access EVERYTHING on your computer.
http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1895,1840141,00.asp