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Re: Fast thumb drive

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On 11/07/2016 12:34 PM, Michael Black wrote:
> 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
>

I was amazed to see, on a recent (i.e. recent here in Australia) episode 
of Bones, where Angela conceded that there are limits to enlarging 
photographs.

Sylvia.

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