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  • Are External USB Drives a Target for Espionage?

    07/26/2009 1:46:23 PM PDT · by poiuqwer · 64 replies · 1,420+ views
    7/26/2009 | poiuqwer
    I suspect that China might be stealing our confidential data that is stored (or backed up) on external USB hard disks, such as those 1 TB commodities sold as Costco for $100. Early this year, I bought two 1 TB external USB drives to backup my computer. These drives cost a little over $100 with a five-year warranty. I figured, for redundancy, I’d copy my main C-drive data files to both drives, just in case one dies. Sure enough, six months later, I get the Windows XP error message “USB Device Not Recognized: one of the USB devices attached to...