This is a great Google hack. This turns your Gmail account into a network drive. Is this the future of storage? You bet. Xdrive and others have tried doing this but have put an GUI barrier between the users and their data. Data access should be seamless from the user's perspective. Security, auditing, authentication, and all of the other OS functions and administrative requirements should be hidden. Let the data flow!
Via Slashdot I ran across this little tidbit on turning USB memory devices into read-only volumes in XP. As I have written before, USB device represent the single largest security threat to businesses today since data is taken out of band by these devices, rendering automated monitoring useless and leaving only physical security measures to deal with the illicit transport of data.
I finally have migrated Radio to my new laptop. Now I can blog from just about anywhere. It will be very nice to get back into the swing of writing. I've got a ton of interesting stuff queued up to post and research.
