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What to do with old flash drives?

Anonymous Wed 28 Oct 2015 02:24:17 No.51051042 View Reply Report Delete

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I've got a 4G flash drive lying around and I don't know what to do with it.

I've already got one formatted to UDF, one for a portable Linux distro, one for regular use. This one is just sitting here being a waste of my money and I don't know what to do with it. I googled around but didn't get any new ideas.

Help me out here guys.

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 28 Oct 2015 02:25:37 No.51051051 Report Delete

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Put your encrypted password database on it, and other precious items and just store it away somewhere.

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 28 Oct 2015 02:25:45 No.51051052 Report Delete

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I have them in a mason jar on my desk.

I don't need to have everything in use 100% of the time. The occasional times that I need a flash drive it's nice knowing that I have a few "on-deck" that I can use without quibbling over what they're currently being used for.

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 28 Oct 2015 02:25:57 No.51051055 Report Delete

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http://www.pcworld.com/article/2896732/dont-trust-other-peoples-usb-flash-drives-they-could-fry-your-laptop.html

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Anonymous Wed 28 Oct 2015 02:28:36 No.51051071 Report Delete

Quoted By: >>51051081 >>51051108 >>51051132

dead drop

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 28 Oct 2015 02:29:12 No.51051077 Report Delete

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>>51051055
This is brilliant, but sadly, this flash drive is nothing more than a tiny piece of black plastic, there's no discrete circuit in it. I know because I had to super glue it when it fell apart last month.

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 28 Oct 2015 02:29:39 No.51051081 Report Delete

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>>51051071
that looks like something a tryhard would do in an attempt to seem edgy.

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 28 Oct 2015 02:31:30 No.51051108 Report Delete

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>>51051071
I saw this in my googling, didn't see the appeal.
One thing I did see which seemed interesting was striping it as half of a RAID0 array like a two key missile system where one can't be read without the other, but I've only got one.

Anonymous

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Anonymous Wed 28 Oct 2015 02:34:04 No.51051132 Report Delete

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>>51051071

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 28 Oct 2015 02:35:09 No.51051141 Report Delete

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>>51051108
>>51051077
OP here BTW.

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 28 Oct 2015 02:36:20 No.51051152 Report Delete

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I'm particularly interested in encryption with the flash drive, but there doesn't seem to be any truly portable solution for that.
-OP

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 28 Oct 2015 03:08:18 No.51051385 Report Delete

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>>51051132
>shorts out every time it rains and trips your breaker
Good idea

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