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Re: Fast thumb drive

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Michael Black <et472@ncf.ca> writes:

> On Sun, 10 Jul 2016, Mike Spencer wrote:
> 
>> Sylvia Else <sylvia@not.at.this.address> writes:
>>
>>> Where can I get one of those USB thumb drives that can take the entire
>>> contents of a terabyte drive in one minute?
>>>
>>> I know they exist - I've seen them in TV crime dramas.
>>
>> They have to be that fast.  Otherwise, those scenes where the teenaged
>> hacker (or NSA whistle-blower) is downloading the CIA, intercut with
>> hundreds of SWAT guys (or heavily armed terrorists) racing toward them
>> by land and air, wouldn't come out the right way.
>>
>
> That scene is right out of Hackers (with Angelina Jolie among others) from 
> 1995 or so.

Just so.  And several other more recent movies the names of which I
forget. 

> Except, they are downloading to floppy discs.

One them terabyte floppies, don'tcha know. ;-)

> Those old movie about home computers are fun.  The early ones were way too 
> fictional, but The Net and Hackers have some substance to it.  But in the 
> latter, they are ogling a new laptop someone got, and it's "state of the 
> art", but ancient by now. It's back in that time when a 28.8K modem was 
> something to look forward to.
>
> Now "technology" is someone taking a picture with their cellphone, no 
> skill required, it's mundane and mainstream.

Now "technology" is an impenetrable browser that does what it wants
to, megabytes of javascript that do whatever some remote corporate
entity wants them to, walled-garden substitutes for Usenet that build
profiles of you by aggregating every bit of data you pass through
them, certs provided by entities you can't assess or audit that claim
hilariously to provide impenetrable security and a new O/S that
unilaterally installs itself and reconfigures your system.

> ...was something to look forward to.

What is it, again, that we're looking forward to now?

-- 
Mike Spencer                  Nova Scotia, Canada

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  Re: Fast thumb drive Michael Black <et472@ncf.ca> - 2016-07-10 09:43 -0400
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  Re: Fast thumb drive Mike Spencer <mds@bogus.nodomain.nowhere> - 2016-07-10 16:50 -0300
    Re: Fast thumb drive Michael Black <et472@ncf.ca> - 2016-07-10 22:34 -0400
      Re: Fast thumb drive Sylvia Else <sylvia@not.at.this.address> - 2016-07-11 13:13 +1000
        Re: Fast thumb drive "Dirk T. Verbeek" <dverbeek@xs4all.nl> - 2016-07-12 00:46 +0200
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              Re: Fast thumb drive Michael Black <et472@ncf.ca> - 2016-07-13 08:24 -0400
      Re: Fast thumb drive Mike Spencer <mds@bogus.nodomain.nowhere> - 2016-07-11 03:55 -0300
        Re: Fast thumb drive Michael Black <et472@ncf.ca> - 2016-07-11 10:08 -0400
          Re: Fast thumb drive Mike Spencer <mds@bogus.nodomain.nowhere> - 2016-07-11 18:11 -0300
            Re: Fast thumb drive Michael Black <et472@ncf.ca> - 2016-07-11 21:33 -0400
              Re: Fast thumb drive Mike Spencer <mds@bogus.nodomain.nowhere> - 2016-07-12 04:15 -0300
              Re: Fast thumb drive Johnny B Good <johnny-b-good@invalid.ntlworld.com> - 2016-07-13 18:07 +0000
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        Re: Fast thumb drive "Kerr Mudd-John" <admin@127.0.0.1> - 2016-07-11 21:04 +0100
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