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Introduction to my Business Card

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Re: Introduction to my Business Card

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Post by rbanffy »

robobenjie wrote: post #25
nzmsv wrote: post #14

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Sadly, people will just stick this, and any random USB device into their computers. I can't remember the company in question, but there was a story about a security audit where the hacker team got in by handing out free USB drives in the parking lot.

I heard the story attributed to Lawrence Livermore National Labs, and they have fairly strict security (ie men with machine guns, lots of trainig). Probably has to do with the plutonium...

It's a good thing you can't smuggle plutonium on a pendrive... At least not out of LLNL.

Re: Introduction to my Business Card

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Post by mcav »

stretchwithme wrote: post #22
nzmsv wrote: post #14

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Sadly, people will just stick this, and any random USB device into their computers. I can't remember the company in question, but there was a story about a security audit where the hacker team got in by handing out free USB drives in the parking lot.

yeah, but you probably would have to stand out there for several minutes before that would work at most companies :-)

They could probably just "drop" them on the cement and someone would pick it up.

Re: Introduction to my Business Card

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Post by wdewind »

tjmaxal wrote: post #2

He should mass produce these. I'd buy a stack for myself and I bet a lot of other people would too.

the entire reason it's impressive is he did it himself. if you want, i'll sell you a bunch of USB drives and you can stick your resume on them too. it kind of kills the interview when the go "wow we are so impressed by this awesome business card resume circuit board!!" and you go "well actually i just ordered it from some guy"

Re: Introduction to my Business Card

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Post by jcl »

mcav wrote: post #32
stretchwithme wrote: post #22

Earlier quoted context omitted.

yeah, but you probably would have to stand out there for several minutes before that would work at most companies :-)

They could probably just "drop" them on the cement and someone would pick it up.

In at least one security audit, that was exactly what happened:

http://www.darkreading.com/security/perimeter/showArticle.jh...

Re: Introduction to my Business Card

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Post by Groxx »

angstrom wrote: post #28

I like it, yet can't help but think: "Look at that subtle off-white coloring. The tasteful thickness of it. Oh my God, it even has a watermark!" only in the technological equivalent.

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The eloquence, the succinctness, the tags after the tag... beautiful.

(yes, I know I'm not seeing what's intended, just having fun)

Re: Introduction to my Business Card

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Post by alanh »

haily wrote: post #12

Hmmm..you might have to include an instruction manual with that :).

Come on, haily has a point. It’s not at all intuitive. It doesn’t look like a USB device to most people. It doesn’t even say “USB” on the device, unless I missed it.
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