Gizmo Blog

Samsung took its hard disks of 1.8 inches high capacity (which equip the Air Macbook, iPod, etc.) and has housed in this case, thin and elegant, the size of a credit size. Difficult to do more for a compact disk of 1.8 inches. They are only available in Asia currently, and rather expensive for high-capacity models: the 120 GB model costs almost 200 € (but much less on some Chinese sites).

The first models to 20 GB, however, are more affordable at about 30 € and glisseront very easily in your wallet.

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If you read this, it’s probably you’re not in Beijing for the Olympics. But for those who plan to get there, be aware that there is a small key capable of bypassing a large wall: “stick freedom” (Freedom Stick) proposed by the famous German CCC:

It is a USB dongle pre-loaded with all the software needed to route your traffic and you can enjoy a non-internet truncated (thank you to onion routing). The baton of freedom is available now until the end of the Games for 20 €. No bother us to tell us that you will use this toy.

This should make you smile: the new security system devised by Thanko does appeal to any solution encryption triple-foo or algorithm military. No, he uses a good old mechanical system code to prevent anyone who does not know the three-digit code to read the valuable contents of your USB key.

Finally… more or less. Brilliant, except that the thief just boarding purely and simply your key at his home, where he will have time to test all possible combinations. Oh, yes… the fact how many different combinations must Does he test before finding the right one?