It may be a techno-geek’s wet dream, but can a 64GB USB flash drive really be a good thing? OK, so you really could carry your entire life around on a key chain; but then a device like this could also be used to steal a multi-national’s entire customer database in one fell swoop.
Just imagine losing this little beauty down the back of the sofa, or in a hire car, or on a plane…. Not only would the $5,000 loss leave you in tears, just how much data would be left at risk? Well, 64GBs worth, potentially.
As we have seen in the media time and time again, these devices are inherently insecure, being so easily lost, stolen or used for ill purposes. Is this perhaps a case of technology evolving because it can, not because it should?
