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Data by Pigeon? It’ll Never Fly …14 ,September, 2009 From Dror Todress |
Frustrated by slow broadband speeds? Here’s an alternative to consider: send the data on a USB flash drive, by carrier pigeon.
That’s exactly what a South African IT company did to highlight the poor performance of its ISP’s ADSL service. The IT company strapped a 4GB memory stick to the pigeon’s leg and sent it 60 miles to its second office, while simultaneously starting to download the same file via ADSL.
The bird arrived after 1 hour 8 minutes, and the data took an hour to upload from the USB flash drive. By which time the ADSL download was only 4% complete. So the experiment was a success: in some conditions, pigeon post is faster. And if a secure USB flash drive is used to carry the data, the data is also well protected against loss, theft … or cats.
Tags: Data Security, secure USB, secure USB Flash Drive, security risk, sensitive data
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