Microsoft has publicly unveiled a USB key fob that enables people (currently law enforcement but that’ll soon change) to bypass Windows security and allow full access to anything on the disk.

Microsoft has developed a small plug-in device that investigators can use to quickly extract forensic data from computers that may have been used in crimes.
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I’ve posted about this before but here’s more specific instructions on how to get a full OS onto a USB stick. They recommend a 1GB stick, but go with a 4GB to give yourself space. Personally I’m doing this with a 16GB stick.

Essentials for creating a Portable gOS using Windows:
* gOS [...]

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In part one I covered ‘Why use eSATA?’ In part two I’m covering ‘How to use eSATA’ The presumption is that you want to add additional external drives to your current setup. Maybe you are a laptop user or have run out of internal space in your computer but still want super fast disk access [...]

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A two part post, you can find part two here.
Own a MacBook Pro or Windows Laptop? Want to write to / from an external disk at theoretical 3Gb/sec? Which, in practical terms, is a maximum of 280MB/sec.

Tags: Apple, art, book, conversion, disk, firewire, free, FW, mac, macbook, macintosh, sata, usb

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Sometimes little gadgets make you go ‘whoa, neat.’ Doesn’t happen often, just sometimes.
This is one of those times. Take a look at this SATA drive USB mount, pretty damned sweet. I WILL be buying one of these shortly.
When it arrives I’ll throw up a review for everyone. In fact this is now outdated by a [...]

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