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I like this because he is demonstrating his technical ingenuity by designing and building the thing - from scratch - by himself. A great lead into getting an i
by frazerb 16y ago
I like this because he is demonstrating his technical ingenuity by designing and building the thing - from scratch - by himself. A great lead into getting an interview or being called in to quote for some work.
But does this show commercial ingenuity ? Perhaps less so. People will be terrified of plugging a random USB device into their machine. And anyway it's pretty easy to buy things just like this - you see them quite a lot at trade shows these days. (eg: http://www.flashbay.com/wafer_usb_card.html http://www.flashbay.com/wafer_usb_card.html)
- aarongough 16y agoI like the idea of these a lot. I've been looking for a way to make sure people don't just throw out my business cards, and making them useful over a long period of time (ie: usb key!) would definitely help...
- nzmsv 16y agoSadly, people will just stick this, and any random USB device into their computers. I can't remember the company in question, but there was a story about a security audit where the hacker team got in by handing out free USB drives in the parking lot.
- robobenjie 16y agoI heard the story attributed to Lawrence Livermore National Labs, and they have fairly strict security (ie men with machine guns, lots of trainig). Probably has to do with the plutonium...
- rbanffy 16y agoIt's a good thing you can't smuggle plutonium on a pendrive... At least not out of LLNL.
- stretchwithme 16y agoyeah, but you probably would have to stand out there for several minutes before that would work at most companies :-)
- mcav 16y agoThey could probably just "drop" them on the cement and someone would pick it up.