[frazerb]

I like this because he is demonstrating his technical ingenuity by designing and building the thing - from scratch - by himself. A great lead into getting an interview or being called in to quote for some work.

But does this show commercial ingenuity ? Perhaps less so. People will be terrified of plugging a random USB device into their machine. And anyway it's pretty easy to buy things just like this - you see them quite a lot at trade shows these days. (eg: http://www.flashbay.com/wafer_usb_card.html)

[nzmsv]

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.

[robobenjie]

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...

[rbanffy]

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

[stretchwithme]

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

[mcav]

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

[jcl]

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

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

[kalid]

Or, give them away at the local starbucks / during lunch hour.

[aarongough]

I like the idea of these a lot. I've been looking for a way to make sure people don't just throw out my business cards, and making them useful over a long period of time (ie: usb key!) would definitely help...