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Comment Confusion about what qualifies as a USB drive (Score 3, Insightful) 412

Do I count my PSP and DS? Both of which have music and movies, along with the plethora of games and get said data through a USB port?

What about my iPod? I routinely use it to transfer files to and from class, as well as movies and music.

Then there's the throwaway thumb drives which get used for sneakernet tranfers among friends. Not to mention the 3.5 hard drive used for serious bandwidth.

Which of these are USB drives? I honestly don't know, but I counted them all, which gave me the 6 - 10 answer.

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Submission + - Pwn2Own downs all but Chrome on Day 1 (arstechnica.com)

Loser4Now writes: "During a contest at the CanSecWest event, security researchers competed to exploit vulnerabilities in web browsers. Firefox, Safari, and Internet Explorer were all successfully compromised, but Chrome was able to withstand the first day of the competition.
( http://arstechnica.com/security/news/2009/03/chrome-is-the-only-browser-left-standing-in-pwn2own-contest.ars )

The competition and related interview with Charlie Miller ( http://blogs.zdnet.com/security/?p=2941 ) served to underscore the marketability of browser security, and the related commercialization of browser exploiters. "Vulnerabilities have a market value so it makes no sense to work hard to find a bug, write an exploit and then give it away," Miller told ZDNet."

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