Comment cold to hot site (Score 1) 252
I can see these being used to make cold sites hot in a matter of seconds. If I had the little guy programmed to run my Firewall, another to run my DNS, etc... etc... I can plug these guys in boot from cdrom in the event that something goes bad on my hard-disks. This way the company stays live until I can take things down to fix them. Sounds like it could be an easy way to make you look like you have everything under control. Although yes it would be nice if they put Microdrives in them so that you could install a complete os on it and just walk around plugging it in to do dirty little tricks.
Point of Sales system password brute forcing all via the little handheld usb. Or anything along those lines.
I can see future application of people using these things as super covert hacking tools.
Just get a mini blackberry sized keyboard dropped on it and a small hard-drive to hold all my friends and a simple lcd I could run terminal commands from the little bugger. Now all I need is a wireless card installed and the possibilities are endless.