Re: Fast thumb drive

From	Michael Black <et472@ncf.ca>
Newsgroups	comp.misc
Subject	Re: Fast thumb drive
Date	2016-07-10 22:34 -0400
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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.

Except, they are downloading to floppy discs.

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.

Michael

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