1 TB USB sticiks...

On a sunny day (Fri, 27 Jan 2023 09:58:08 -0800) it happened John Larkin
<jlarkin@highlandSNIPMEtechnology.com> wrote in
<4j38th953mtiop5d0ui0tf4q961p2696uh@4ax.com>:

On Fri, 27 Jan 2023 17:31:18 GMT, Jan Panteltje <alien@comet.invalid
wrote:

For about 75 Euro (is about the same in US dollars) I bought a 1 TB USB stick...
Very small thing, smaller than my thumb.

Interesting, put Linux ext4 filesystem on it and ran some tests,
sort of half expected it to be fake, but writing a 500 GB test file worked,
so spend some time using it to create backups so as to have something that
you can carry with you....
All of my website, email, code I wrote and one old CD after the other..
Write speed is slow, but read speed seems high enough for HD video.
And it fits in my Raspberry Pi4... or any recent Linux laptop.
http://panteltje.com/pub/1TB_USB_stick_closed_IXIMG_0927.JPG
http://panteltje.com/pub/1TB_USB_stick_open_IXIMG_0929.JPG
Old USB socket!

So also discovered all my CD-R I burned back in about 2002, so 21 years ago (for the mamaticians)
still read 100% and mostly at high speed on my LG M-Disc reader....
All optical media is stored in light proof alu box...

I mean I am used to high capacity, have 2 4 TB harddisks and 2 1 TB harddisks in use,
but those suck current, make a little noise too and are relatively big
and fragile (dropping is not good for drives),
but this is really small and you can drop it as often as you like...

Who needs cloud storage? carry it anywhere,
I have encrypted the USB stick with latest kwantuum particles of course...

Most suckers that find it will run MS windows, not sure that even recognizes ext4 filesystem?
Anyone know?






We use several-terabyte USB hard drives for backup, roughly $25 per
tbyte. I guess we could cut over to flash sticks and save some storage
volume. A full backup is just under a tB and creeps up over time as we
release more products.

Aren\'t the flash drives slower to write?
Click to expand...

These are, I found some compare and tests at tomshardware.com
But this one was so cheap because of the slow write times,
But for writng date from CDs or Bluray and mainly storage use, this is just fine.
For a HD camera recording likely not.
The newer ones mostly seem to have those small USB connectors that fit into you smartphone.
Some also have memory buffers..
 
On a sunny day (Fri, 27 Jan 2023 11:00:19 -0800 (PST)) it happened whit3rd
<whit3rd@gmail.com> wrote in
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On Friday, January 27, 2023 at 9:40:15 AM UTC-8, Ed Lee wrote:
On Friday, January 27, 2023 at 9:35:28 AM UTC-8, Jan Panteltje wrote:
For about 75 Euro (is about the same in US dollars) I bought a 1 TB USB stick...
Very small thing, smaller than my thumb.

Interesting, put Linux ext4 filesystem on it and ran some tests,

Most suckers that find it will run MS windows, not sure that even recognizes ext4 filesystem?
Anyone know?

Don\'t think so. I would put NTFS on it for both MS and Linux.

NTFS was read-only on MacOS; not recommended for broad compatibility.
Apple redesigned HFS+ into APFS to accomodate big flash drives.
ext4 wasn\'t aimed at flash storage (has to be handled carefully according to
its erase/wear-out characteristics).
There are patents involved, too.
What\'s wanted, is an open (?ISO) file spec similar to the one on CDs etc. But, what
most flash media comes with, is FAT32 (which is out of patent, I hope?) or exFAT.
Click to expand...

This one came with that latest Microsoft filesystem that allows big files
cannot remember the name exFAT?
 
On Saturday, January 28, 2023 at 2:43:26 AM UTC-4, Jan Panteltje wrote:
On a sunny day (Sat, 28 Jan 2023 08:54:11 +1100) it happened Sylvia Else
syl...@email.invalid> wrote in <k3ivg3...@mid.individual.net>:
On 28-Jan-23 4:31 am, Jan Panteltje wrote:
For about 75 Euro (is about the same in US dollars) I bought a 1 TB USB stick...
Very small thing, smaller than my thumb.

Interesting, put Linux ext4 filesystem on it and ran some tests,
sort of half expected it to be fake, but writing a 500 GB test file worked,
so spend some time using it to create backups so as to have something that
you can carry with you....
All of my website, email, code I wrote and one old CD after the other..
Write speed is slow, but read speed seems high enough for HD video.
And it fits in my Raspberry Pi4... or any recent Linux laptop.
http://panteltje.com/pub/1TB_USB_stick_closed_IXIMG_0927.JPG
http://panteltje.com/pub/1TB_USB_stick_open_IXIMG_0929.JPG
Old USB socket!

So also discovered all my CD-R I burned back in about 2002, so 21 years ago (for the mamaticians)
still read 100% and mostly at high speed on my LG M-Disc reader....
All optical media is stored in light proof alu box...

I mean I am used to high capacity, have 2 4 TB harddisks and 2 1 TB harddisks in use,
but those suck current, make a little noise too and are relatively big
and fragile (dropping is not good for drives),
but this is really small and you can drop it as often as you like...

Who needs cloud storage? carry it anywhere,
I have encrypted the USB stick with latest kwantuum particles of course...

Most suckers that find it will run MS windows, not sure that even recognizes ext4 filesystem?
Anyone know?


These days I store important stuff, strongly encrypted, on Amazon, with
the advantage that it can be automated, and is off site, so I\'m OK even
if the house burns down.
Amazon, Microsoft, all US Big Brother reading everything.
If the house burns down I have this USB stick im my pocket....
:)
Click to expand...

I hope you are able to escape your burning home with pockets.

--

Rick C.

-- Get 1,000 miles of free Supercharging
-- Tesla referral code - https://ts.la/richard11209
 
On 28-Jan-23 5:39 pm, Jan Panteltje wrote:
On a sunny day (Sat, 28 Jan 2023 08:54:11 +1100) it happened Sylvia Else
sylvia@email.invalid> wrote in <k3ivg3FrnpiU1@mid.individual.net>:

On 28-Jan-23 4:31 am, Jan Panteltje wrote:
For about 75 Euro (is about the same in US dollars) I bought a 1 TB USB stick...
Very small thing, smaller than my thumb.

Interesting, put Linux ext4 filesystem on it and ran some tests,
sort of half expected it to be fake, but writing a 500 GB test file worked,
so spend some time using it to create backups so as to have something that
you can carry with you....
All of my website, email, code I wrote and one old CD after the other..
Write speed is slow, but read speed seems high enough for HD video.
And it fits in my Raspberry Pi4... or any recent Linux laptop.
http://panteltje.com/pub/1TB_USB_stick_closed_IXIMG_0927.JPG
http://panteltje.com/pub/1TB_USB_stick_open_IXIMG_0929.JPG
Old USB socket!

So also discovered all my CD-R I burned back in about 2002, so 21 years ago (for the mamaticians)
still read 100% and mostly at high speed on my LG M-Disc reader....
All optical media is stored in light proof alu box...

I mean I am used to high capacity, have 2 4 TB harddisks and 2 1 TB harddisks in use,
but those suck current, make a little noise too and are relatively big
and fragile (dropping is not good for drives),
but this is really small and you can drop it as often as you like...

Who needs cloud storage? carry it anywhere,
I have encrypted the USB stick with latest kwantuum particles of course...

Most suckers that find it will run MS windows, not sure that even recognizes ext4 filesystem?
Anyone know?


These days I store important stuff, strongly encrypted, on Amazon, with
the advantage that it can be automated, and is off site, so I\'m OK even
if the house burns down.

Amazon, Microsoft, all US Big Brother reading everything.
If the house burns down I have this USB stick im my pocket....
:)
Click to expand...

Since my data is encrypted before it\'s sent, good luck to Amazon reading it.

Sylvia.
 
On a sunny day (Sat, 28 Jan 2023 19:04:56 +1100) it happened Sylvia Else
<sylvia@email.invalid> wrote in <k3k398F2pd4U1@mid.individual.net>:

On 28-Jan-23 5:39 pm, Jan Panteltje wrote:
On a sunny day (Sat, 28 Jan 2023 08:54:11 +1100) it happened Sylvia Else
sylvia@email.invalid> wrote in <k3ivg3FrnpiU1@mid.individual.net>:

On 28-Jan-23 4:31 am, Jan Panteltje wrote:
For about 75 Euro (is about the same in US dollars) I bought a 1 TB USB stick...
Very small thing, smaller than my thumb.

Interesting, put Linux ext4 filesystem on it and ran some tests,
sort of half expected it to be fake, but writing a 500 GB test file worked,
so spend some time using it to create backups so as to have something that
you can carry with you....
All of my website, email, code I wrote and one old CD after the other..
Write speed is slow, but read speed seems high enough for HD video.
And it fits in my Raspberry Pi4... or any recent Linux laptop.
http://panteltje.com/pub/1TB_USB_stick_closed_IXIMG_0927.JPG
http://panteltje.com/pub/1TB_USB_stick_open_IXIMG_0929.JPG
Old USB socket!

So also discovered all my CD-R I burned back in about 2002, so 21 years ago (for the mamaticians)
still read 100% and mostly at high speed on my LG M-Disc reader....
All optical media is stored in light proof alu box...

I mean I am used to high capacity, have 2 4 TB harddisks and 2 1 TB harddisks in use,
but those suck current, make a little noise too and are relatively big
and fragile (dropping is not good for drives),
but this is really small and you can drop it as often as you like...

Who needs cloud storage? carry it anywhere,
I have encrypted the USB stick with latest kwantuum particles of course...

Most suckers that find it will run MS windows, not sure that even recognizes ext4 filesystem?
Anyone know?


These days I store important stuff, strongly encrypted, on Amazon, with
the advantage that it can be automated, and is off site, so I\'m OK even
if the house burns down.

Amazon, Microsoft, all US Big Brother reading everything.
If the house burns down I have this USB stick im my pocket....
:)


Since my data is encrypted before it\'s sent, good luck to Amazon reading it.

Sylvia.
Click to expand...

Never underestimate the power of US decryption facilities.
But even then they likely see who you communicated with and when.
And where you was at any time from your cellphone
where and what you bought or sold from your bank.
All data sold to the highest bidder of course, to target you with advertising.
 
On a sunny day (Fri, 27 Jan 2023 23:53:54 -0800 (PST)) it happened Ricky
<gnuarm.deletethisbit@gmail.com> wrote in
<9bafa74c-693c-4f2c-956c-9a8999469e59n@googlegroups.com>:

On Saturday, January 28, 2023 at 2:43:26 AM UTC-4, Jan Panteltje wrote:
On a sunny day (Sat, 28 Jan 2023 08:54:11 +1100) it happened Sylvia Else
syl...@email.invalid> wrote in <k3ivg3...@mid.individual.net>:
On 28-Jan-23 4:31 am, Jan Panteltje wrote:
For about 75 Euro (is about the same in US dollars) I bought a 1 TB USB stick...
Very small thing, smaller than my thumb.

Interesting, put Linux ext4 filesystem on it and ran some tests,
sort of half expected it to be fake, but writing a 500 GB test file worked,
so spend some time using it to create backups so as to have something that
you can carry with you....
All of my website, email, code I wrote and one old CD after the other..
Write speed is slow, but read speed seems high enough for HD video.
And it fits in my Raspberry Pi4... or any recent Linux laptop.
http://panteltje.com/pub/1TB_USB_stick_closed_IXIMG_0927.JPG
http://panteltje.com/pub/1TB_USB_stick_open_IXIMG_0929.JPG
Old USB socket!

So also discovered all my CD-R I burned back in about 2002, so 21 years ago (for the mamaticians)
still read 100% and mostly at high speed on my LG M-Disc reader....
All optical media is stored in light proof alu box...

I mean I am used to high capacity, have 2 4 TB harddisks and 2 1 TB harddisks in use,
but those suck current, make a little noise too and are relatively big
and fragile (dropping is not good for drives),
but this is really small and you can drop it as often as you like...

Who needs cloud storage? carry it anywhere,
I have encrypted the USB stick with latest kwantuum particles of course...

Most suckers that find it will run MS windows, not sure that even recognizes ext4 filesystem?
Anyone know?


These days I store important stuff, strongly encrypted, on Amazon, with
the advantage that it can be automated, and is off site, so I\'m OK even
if the house burns down.
Amazon, Microsoft, all US Big Brother reading everything.
If the house burns down I have this USB stick in my pocket....
:)

I hope you are able to escape your burning home with pockets.
Click to expand...

Long time ago I had training in how to handle fires, required with a studio full of artists.

In my upstairs bedroom I created an escape path, even some rope present to let yourself down
USB stick and some other stuff is close to me, fire detectors with alarms on each floor,
tool to open windows..
Downstairs exit is much easier.

But OK if a F35 lands on the house... but then 5 of those from here have just left for Poland
says the news... To help the US Military Industrial Complex make more money burning Ukrainian and Russian lives.

So less F35, more quiet (its a noisy piece of crap, noisy is a sigh of a bad design).

By the time the nukes fall well hide under the table..
?
 
On 2023-01-27 22:54, Sylvia Else wrote:
On 28-Jan-23 4:31 am, Jan Panteltje wrote:
For about 75 Euro (is about the same in US dollars) I bought a 1 TB
USB stick...
Very small thing, smaller than my thumb.

Interesting, put Linux ext4 filesystem on it and ran some tests,
sort of half expected it to be fake, but writing a 500 GB test file
worked,
so spend some time using it to create backups so as to have something
that
you can carry with you....
All of my website, email, code I wrote and one old CD after the other..
Write speed is slow, but read speed seems high enough for HD video.
And it fits in my Raspberry Pi4... or any recent Linux laptop.
  http://panteltje.com/pub/1TB_USB_stick_closed_IXIMG_0927.JPG
  http://panteltje.com/pub/1TB_USB_stick_open_IXIMG_0929.JPG
Old USB socket!

So also discovered all my CD-R I burned back in about 2002, so 21
years ago (for the mamaticians)
still read 100% and mostly at high speed on my LG M-Disc reader....
All optical media is stored in light proof alu box...

I mean I am used to high capacity, have 2 4 TB harddisks and 2 1 TB
harddisks in use,
but those suck current, make a little noise too and are relatively big
and fragile (dropping is not good for drives),
but this is really small and you can drop it as often as you like...

Who needs cloud storage? carry it anywhere,
I have encrypted the USB stick with latest kwantuum particles of
course...

Most suckers that find it will run MS windows, not sure that even
recognizes ext4 filesystem?
Anyone know?


These days I store important stuff, strongly encrypted, on Amazon, with
the advantage that it can be automated, and is off site, so I\'m OK even
if the house burns down.
Click to expand...

And where do you keep the encryption key and software? :-D

If it is strong encryption, they key has to be big, so not to be kept in
neurones based memory :-DD

--
Cheers, Carlos.
 
On a sunny day (Sat, 28 Jan 2023 02:29:10 +0100) it happened \"Carlos E.R.\"
<robin_listas@es.invalid> wrote in <6caeajxg7o.ln2@Telcontar.valinor>:

If it is strong encryption, they key has to be big, so not to be kept in
neurones based memory :-DD
Click to expand...

Right
I have been using Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious
for all my accounts
Cannot remember how to spell it either, but google always finds it...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious

None of the auto-bots has tried it yet according to my logs.

So I am safe!
 
On Sat, 28 Jan 2023 19:04:56 +1100, Sylvia Else <sylvia@email.invalid>
wrote:

On 28-Jan-23 5:39 pm, Jan Panteltje wrote:
On a sunny day (Sat, 28 Jan 2023 08:54:11 +1100) it happened Sylvia Else
sylvia@email.invalid> wrote in <k3ivg3FrnpiU1@mid.individual.net>:

On 28-Jan-23 4:31 am, Jan Panteltje wrote:
For about 75 Euro (is about the same in US dollars) I bought a 1 TB USB stick...
Very small thing, smaller than my thumb.

Interesting, put Linux ext4 filesystem on it and ran some tests,
sort of half expected it to be fake, but writing a 500 GB test file worked,
so spend some time using it to create backups so as to have something that
you can carry with you....
All of my website, email, code I wrote and one old CD after the other..
Write speed is slow, but read speed seems high enough for HD video.
And it fits in my Raspberry Pi4... or any recent Linux laptop.
http://panteltje.com/pub/1TB_USB_stick_closed_IXIMG_0927.JPG
http://panteltje.com/pub/1TB_USB_stick_open_IXIMG_0929.JPG
Old USB socket!

So also discovered all my CD-R I burned back in about 2002, so 21 years ago (for the mamaticians)
still read 100% and mostly at high speed on my LG M-Disc reader....
All optical media is stored in light proof alu box...

I mean I am used to high capacity, have 2 4 TB harddisks and 2 1 TB harddisks in use,
but those suck current, make a little noise too and are relatively big
and fragile (dropping is not good for drives),
but this is really small and you can drop it as often as you like...

Who needs cloud storage? carry it anywhere,
I have encrypted the USB stick with latest kwantuum particles of course...

Most suckers that find it will run MS windows, not sure that even recognizes ext4 filesystem?
Anyone know?


These days I store important stuff, strongly encrypted, on Amazon, with
the advantage that it can be automated, and is off site, so I\'m OK even
if the house burns down.

Amazon, Microsoft, all US Big Brother reading everything.
If the house burns down I have this USB stick im my pocket....
:)


Since my data is encrypted before it\'s sent, good luck to Amazon reading it.
Click to expand...

I would also worry about Amazon (or Google) losing the data in an IT
incident. It does happen.

So I\'d retain a physical copy on an encrypted thumb drive or the like.
Or have two cloud backup providers. On different continents maybe?

Joe Gwinn
 
On Sat, 28 Jan 2023 02:29:10 +0100, \"Carlos E.R.\"
<robin_listas@es.invalid> wrote:

On 2023-01-27 22:54, Sylvia Else wrote:
On 28-Jan-23 4:31 am, Jan Panteltje wrote:
For about 75 Euro (is about the same in US dollars) I bought a 1 TB
USB stick...
Very small thing, smaller than my thumb.

Interesting, put Linux ext4 filesystem on it and ran some tests,
sort of half expected it to be fake, but writing a 500 GB test file
worked,
so spend some time using it to create backups so as to have something
that
you can carry with you....
All of my website, email, code I wrote and one old CD after the other..
Write speed is slow, but read speed seems high enough for HD video.
And it fits in my Raspberry Pi4... or any recent Linux laptop.
  http://panteltje.com/pub/1TB_USB_stick_closed_IXIMG_0927.JPG
  http://panteltje.com/pub/1TB_USB_stick_open_IXIMG_0929.JPG
Old USB socket!

So also discovered all my CD-R I burned back in about 2002, so 21
years ago (for the mamaticians)
still read 100% and mostly at high speed on my LG M-Disc reader....
All optical media is stored in light proof alu box...

I mean I am used to high capacity, have 2 4 TB harddisks and 2 1 TB
harddisks in use,
but those suck current, make a little noise too and are relatively big
and fragile (dropping is not good for drives),
but this is really small and you can drop it as often as you like...

Who needs cloud storage? carry it anywhere,
I have encrypted the USB stick with latest kwantuum particles of
course...

Most suckers that find it will run MS windows, not sure that even
recognizes ext4 filesystem?
Anyone know?


These days I store important stuff, strongly encrypted, on Amazon, with
the advantage that it can be automated, and is off site, so I\'m OK even
if the house burns down.

And where do you keep the encryption key and software? :-D

If it is strong encryption, they key has to be big, so not to be kept in
neurones based memory :-DD
Click to expand...

Not necessarily. The current approach is to use a very long
passphrase that is easily remembered because it isn\'t a long string of
random letters.

Being long enough eliminates the need to be complex or random.

MS BitLocker works that way; I assume their competitors do as well.

..<https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/security/information-protection/bitlocker/bitlocker-device-encryption-overview-windows-10>

Joe Gwinn
 
On 1/28/2023 10:15 AM, Joe Gwinn wrote:
On Sat, 28 Jan 2023 02:29:10 +0100, \"Carlos E.R.\"
robin_listas@es.invalid> wrote:

On 2023-01-27 22:54, Sylvia Else wrote:
On 28-Jan-23 4:31 am, Jan Panteltje wrote:
For about 75 Euro (is about the same in US dollars) I bought a 1 TB
USB stick...
Very small thing, smaller than my thumb.

Interesting, put Linux ext4 filesystem on it and ran some tests,
sort of half expected it to be fake, but writing a 500 GB test file
worked,
so spend some time using it to create backups so as to have something
that
you can carry with you....
All of my website, email, code I wrote and one old CD after the other..
Write speed is slow, but read speed seems high enough for HD video.
And it fits in my Raspberry Pi4... or any recent Linux laptop.
  http://panteltje.com/pub/1TB_USB_stick_closed_IXIMG_0927.JPG
  http://panteltje.com/pub/1TB_USB_stick_open_IXIMG_0929.JPG
Old USB socket!

So also discovered all my CD-R I burned back in about 2002, so 21
years ago (for the mamaticians)
still read 100% and mostly at high speed on my LG M-Disc reader....
All optical media is stored in light proof alu box...

I mean I am used to high capacity, have 2 4 TB harddisks and 2 1 TB
harddisks in use,
but those suck current, make a little noise too and are relatively big
and fragile (dropping is not good for drives),
but this is really small and you can drop it as often as you like...

Who needs cloud storage? carry it anywhere,
I have encrypted the USB stick with latest kwantuum particles of
course...

Most suckers that find it will run MS windows, not sure that even
recognizes ext4 filesystem?
Anyone know?


These days I store important stuff, strongly encrypted, on Amazon, with
the advantage that it can be automated, and is off site, so I\'m OK even
if the house burns down.

And where do you keep the encryption key and software? :-D

If it is strong encryption, they key has to be big, so not to be kept in
neurones based memory :-DD

Not necessarily. The current approach is to use a very long
passphrase that is easily remembered because it isn\'t a long string of
random letters.

Being long enough eliminates the need to be complex or random.

MS BitLocker works that way; I assume their competitors do as well.
Click to expand...

How many of these do you \"commit to memory\"? And, how good will that
memory be in times of stress?

\"Strong secrets\" really only work if you don\'t have many of them.
(because you don\'t want to reuse ANY of them).

Otherwise, you have to start jotting them down, somewhere.
 
On Friday, January 27, 2023 at 10:43:25 PM UTC-8, Jan Panteltje wrote:
On a sunny day (Fri, 27 Jan 2023 09:40:10 -0800 (PST)) it happened Ed Lee
edward....@gmail.com> wrote in
40098d7b-8d95-42bb...@googlegroups.com>:
On Friday, January 27, 2023 at 9:35:28 AM UTC-8, Jan Panteltje wrote:

I have encrypted the USB stick with latest kwantuum particles of course...

I have been thinking about how to encrypt it, one idea was to XOR every byte with the digits in PI
However I could not immediately find PI to 1,000,000,000,000,000 digits,
then thought about calculating that, but putah power and time .. went full circle so to speak...:),
Click to expand...

If you compress files first (to increase the info concentration) then XOR,
there won\'t be as much tolerance; one bit wrong in your XOR standard, though,
will clobber the compression.
To get long multibyte randoms, an old UHF receiver tuned to static will
video-capture a nice hash; a non-repeatable \'seed\' to fit a DVD-ROM can
be replicated, and copies kept in multiple sites... and if you don\'t store
all the instructions for use in the same place, decryption by passers-by is unlikely.
 
On 1/28/2023 11:51 AM, whit3rd wrote:
On Friday, January 27, 2023 at 10:43:25 PM UTC-8, Jan Panteltje wrote:
On a sunny day (Fri, 27 Jan 2023 09:40:10 -0800 (PST)) it happened Ed Lee
edward....@gmail.com> wrote in
40098d7b-8d95-42bb...@googlegroups.com>:
On Friday, January 27, 2023 at 9:35:28 AM UTC-8, Jan Panteltje wrote:

I have encrypted the USB stick with latest kwantuum particles of course...

I have been thinking about how to encrypt it, one idea was to XOR every byte with the digits in PI
However I could not immediately find PI to 1,000,000,000,000,000 digits,
then thought about calculating that, but putah power and time .. went full circle so to speak...:),

If you compress files first (to increase the info concentration) then XOR,
there won\'t be as much tolerance; one bit wrong in your XOR standard, though,
will clobber the compression.
Click to expand...

Store ISOs and the hashes of their contents. So, if the ISO structure is
munged, you can (potentially) retrieve the individual files within.

My archive takes this approach -- storing hashes of every file in
a separate RDBMS. This allows a script to routinely \"patrol\" the
archive and verify the contents are 1) accessible and 2) not corrupt.

Additionally, it allows for the rapid identification of likely
duplicates of files (helpful if a file is found to be inaccessible
or corrupt).

(most) Compression leaves you more vulnerable to data loss for small errors.

And, given the storage densities available, today ($/byte), it\'s almost
a silly exercise.

To get long multibyte randoms, an old UHF receiver tuned to static will
video-capture a nice hash; a non-repeatable \'seed\' to fit a DVD-ROM can
be replicated, and copies kept in multiple sites... and if you don\'t store
all the instructions for use in the same place, decryption by passers-by is unlikely.
Click to expand...

This is the equivalent of a one-time pad. Wonderful at concealing
the contents. But, usually adds considerably to the storage requirement
(for the pad, itself)
 
On 1/28/2023 1:04 AM, Sylvia Else wrote:
On 28-Jan-23 5:39 pm, Jan Panteltje wrote:
On a sunny day (Sat, 28 Jan 2023 08:54:11 +1100) it happened Sylvia Else
sylvia@email.invalid> wrote in <k3ivg3FrnpiU1@mid.individual.net>:

On 28-Jan-23 4:31 am, Jan Panteltje wrote:
For about 75 Euro (is about the same in US dollars) I bought a 1 TB USB
stick...
Very small thing, smaller than my thumb.

Interesting, put Linux ext4 filesystem on it and ran some tests,
sort of half expected it to be fake, but writing a 500 GB test file worked,
so spend some time using it to create backups so as to have something that
you can carry with you....
All of my website, email, code I wrote and one old CD after the other..
Write speed is slow, but read speed seems high enough for HD video.
And it fits in my Raspberry Pi4... or any recent Linux laptop.
   http://panteltje.com/pub/1TB_USB_stick_closed_IXIMG_0927.JPG
   http://panteltje.com/pub/1TB_USB_stick_open_IXIMG_0929.JPG
Old USB socket!

So also discovered all my CD-R I burned back in about 2002, so 21 years ago
(for the mamaticians)
still read 100% and mostly at high speed on my LG M-Disc reader....
All optical media is stored in light proof alu box...

I mean I am used to high capacity, have 2 4 TB harddisks and 2 1 TB
harddisks in use,
but those suck current, make a little noise too and are relatively big
and fragile (dropping is not good for drives),
but this is really small and you can drop it as often as you like...

Who needs cloud storage? carry it anywhere,
I have encrypted the USB stick with latest kwantuum particles of course...

Most suckers that find it will run MS windows, not sure that even
recognizes ext4 filesystem?
Anyone know?


These days I store important stuff, strongly encrypted, on Amazon, with
the advantage that it can be automated, and is off site, so I\'m OK even
if the house burns down.

Amazon, Microsoft, all US Big Brother reading everything.
If the house burns down I have this USB stick im my pocket....
:)

Since my data is encrypted before it\'s sent, good luck to Amazon reading it.
Click to expand...

Perhaps an acceptable solution -- if you don\'t have much \"data\"
(or, more generally, \"content\").

Note that information leaks just by the fact that you *have* data
and have chosen to store it on their server. (none of my
neighbors would think to do such a thing; what does that say
about them? you??) And, of course, any names you\'ve chosen
for those \"storage entities\" can be revealing (BankRecords.tgz,
etc.)

I\'d be particularly annoyed at having to store (multiple?) HUGE
tarballs to archive the many TB of stuff I have, here. Just the
bandwidth requirements to move it up and back would be silly!

[Packaging things in smaller units would mean maintaining
multiple secrets.]
 
On Saturday, January 28, 2023 at 7:59:43 AM UTC-4, Jan Panteltje wrote:
On a sunny day (Sat, 28 Jan 2023 19:04:56 +1100) it happened Sylvia Else
syl...@email.invalid> wrote in <k3k398...@mid.individual.net>:
On 28-Jan-23 5:39 pm, Jan Panteltje wrote:
On a sunny day (Sat, 28 Jan 2023 08:54:11 +1100) it happened Sylvia Else
syl...@email.invalid> wrote in <k3ivg3...@mid.individual.net>:

On 28-Jan-23 4:31 am, Jan Panteltje wrote:
For about 75 Euro (is about the same in US dollars) I bought a 1 TB USB stick...
Very small thing, smaller than my thumb.

Interesting, put Linux ext4 filesystem on it and ran some tests,
sort of half expected it to be fake, but writing a 500 GB test file worked,
so spend some time using it to create backups so as to have something that
you can carry with you....
All of my website, email, code I wrote and one old CD after the other..
Write speed is slow, but read speed seems high enough for HD video.
And it fits in my Raspberry Pi4... or any recent Linux laptop.
http://panteltje.com/pub/1TB_USB_stick_closed_IXIMG_0927.JPG
http://panteltje.com/pub/1TB_USB_stick_open_IXIMG_0929.JPG
Old USB socket!

So also discovered all my CD-R I burned back in about 2002, so 21 years ago (for the mamaticians)
still read 100% and mostly at high speed on my LG M-Disc reader....
All optical media is stored in light proof alu box...

I mean I am used to high capacity, have 2 4 TB harddisks and 2 1 TB harddisks in use,
but those suck current, make a little noise too and are relatively big
and fragile (dropping is not good for drives),
but this is really small and you can drop it as often as you like...

Who needs cloud storage? carry it anywhere,
I have encrypted the USB stick with latest kwantuum particles of course...

Most suckers that find it will run MS windows, not sure that even recognizes ext4 filesystem?
Anyone know?


These days I store important stuff, strongly encrypted, on Amazon, with
the advantage that it can be automated, and is off site, so I\'m OK even
if the house burns down.

Amazon, Microsoft, all US Big Brother reading everything.
If the house burns down I have this USB stick im my pocket....
:)


Since my data is encrypted before it\'s sent, good luck to Amazon reading it.

Sylvia.
Never underestimate the power of US decryption facilities.
But even then they likely see who you communicated with and when.
And where you was at any time from your cellphone
where and what you bought or sold from your bank.
All data sold to the highest bidder of course, to target you with advertising.
Click to expand...

You say that like it\'s a bad thing. Without advertising, how would you know that you need mouthwash or better clothes, or a new car?

All kidding aside, out economy is consumer based. If we change our habits, the economy goes into a tailspin that is hard to recover from. Look what happened because we stayed home, en masse, and we lost the ability to manufacture semiconductors in adequate numbers. Three years later, we still haven\'t recovered that knowledge.

Most people don\'t know the Roman empire collapsed because of a bout with swine flu that resulted in the loss of chariot manufacturing.

--

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-+ Get 1,000 miles of free Supercharging
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On 28-Jan-23 10:55 pm, Jan Panteltje wrote:
On a sunny day (Sat, 28 Jan 2023 19:04:56 +1100) it happened Sylvia Else
sylvia@email.invalid> wrote in <k3k398F2pd4U1@mid.individual.net>:

On 28-Jan-23 5:39 pm, Jan Panteltje wrote:
On a sunny day (Sat, 28 Jan 2023 08:54:11 +1100) it happened Sylvia Else
sylvia@email.invalid> wrote in <k3ivg3FrnpiU1@mid.individual.net>:

On 28-Jan-23 4:31 am, Jan Panteltje wrote:
For about 75 Euro (is about the same in US dollars) I bought a 1 TB USB stick...
Very small thing, smaller than my thumb.

Interesting, put Linux ext4 filesystem on it and ran some tests,
sort of half expected it to be fake, but writing a 500 GB test file worked,
so spend some time using it to create backups so as to have something that
you can carry with you....
All of my website, email, code I wrote and one old CD after the other..
Write speed is slow, but read speed seems high enough for HD video.
And it fits in my Raspberry Pi4... or any recent Linux laptop.
http://panteltje.com/pub/1TB_USB_stick_closed_IXIMG_0927.JPG
http://panteltje.com/pub/1TB_USB_stick_open_IXIMG_0929.JPG
Old USB socket!

So also discovered all my CD-R I burned back in about 2002, so 21 years ago (for the mamaticians)
still read 100% and mostly at high speed on my LG M-Disc reader....
All optical media is stored in light proof alu box...

I mean I am used to high capacity, have 2 4 TB harddisks and 2 1 TB harddisks in use,
but those suck current, make a little noise too and are relatively big
and fragile (dropping is not good for drives),
but this is really small and you can drop it as often as you like...

Who needs cloud storage? carry it anywhere,
I have encrypted the USB stick with latest kwantuum particles of course...

Most suckers that find it will run MS windows, not sure that even recognizes ext4 filesystem?
Anyone know?


These days I store important stuff, strongly encrypted, on Amazon, with
the advantage that it can be automated, and is off site, so I\'m OK even
if the house burns down.

Amazon, Microsoft, all US Big Brother reading everything.
If the house burns down I have this USB stick im my pocket....
:)


Since my data is encrypted before it\'s sent, good luck to Amazon reading it.

Sylvia.

Never underestimate the power of US decryption facilities.
Click to expand...

It would take a breakthrough in number theory related to factorisation
for RSA to be broken. There is no reason to think that the US has
achieved that.


> But even then they likely see who you communicated with and when.

They can see that I communicated with Amazon.


And where you was at any time from your cellphone
where and what you bought or sold from your bank.
All data sold to the highest bidder of course, to target you with advertising.
Click to expand...

My cell phone tends to sit on my desk. It would be a rare occasion that
I even remember to take it with me when I go out.

Sylvia.
 
On 29-Jan-23 6:56 am, Don Y wrote:
On 1/28/2023 1:04 AM, Sylvia Else wrote:
On 28-Jan-23 5:39 pm, Jan Panteltje wrote:
On a sunny day (Sat, 28 Jan 2023 08:54:11 +1100) it happened Sylvia Else
sylvia@email.invalid> wrote in <k3ivg3FrnpiU1@mid.individual.net>:

On 28-Jan-23 4:31 am, Jan Panteltje wrote:
For about 75 Euro (is about the same in US dollars) I bought a 1 TB
USB stick...
Very small thing, smaller than my thumb.

Interesting, put Linux ext4 filesystem on it and ran some tests,
sort of half expected it to be fake, but writing a 500 GB test file
worked,
so spend some time using it to create backups so as to have
something that
you can carry with you....
All of my website, email, code I wrote and one old CD after the
other..
Write speed is slow, but read speed seems high enough for HD video.
And it fits in my Raspberry Pi4... or any recent Linux laptop.
   http://panteltje.com/pub/1TB_USB_stick_closed_IXIMG_0927.JPG
   http://panteltje.com/pub/1TB_USB_stick_open_IXIMG_0929.JPG
Old USB socket!

So also discovered all my CD-R I burned back in about 2002, so 21
years ago (for the mamaticians)
still read 100% and mostly at high speed on my LG M-Disc reader....
All optical media is stored in light proof alu box...

I mean I am used to high capacity, have 2 4 TB harddisks and 2 1 TB
harddisks in use,
but those suck current, make a little noise too and are relatively big
and fragile (dropping is not good for drives),
but this is really small and you can drop it as often as you like...

Who needs cloud storage? carry it anywhere,
I have encrypted the USB stick with latest kwantuum particles of
course...

Most suckers that find it will run MS windows, not sure that even
recognizes ext4 filesystem?
Anyone know?


These days I store important stuff, strongly encrypted, on Amazon, with
the advantage that it can be automated, and is off site, so I\'m OK even
if the house burns down.

Amazon, Microsoft, all US Big Brother reading everything.
If the house burns down I have this USB stick im my pocket....
:)

Since my data is encrypted before it\'s sent, good luck to Amazon
reading it.

Perhaps an acceptable solution -- if you don\'t have much \"data\"
(or, more generally, \"content\").

Note that information leaks just by the fact that you *have* data
and have chosen to store it on their server.  (none of my
neighbors would think to do such a thing; what does that say
about them?  you??)  And, of course, any names you\'ve chosen
for those \"storage entities\" can be revealing (BankRecords.tgz,
etc.)

I\'d be particularly annoyed at having to store (multiple?) HUGE
tarballs to archive the many TB of stuff I have, here.  Just the
bandwidth requirements to move it up and back would be silly!

[Packaging things in smaller units would mean maintaining
multiple secrets.]
Click to expand...
They\'re encrypted compressed tar files, broken into numbered pieces
(usually just one, but the initial backup took more space). So I doubt
much could be deduced from the uploaded data.

Sylvia.
 
On Saturday, January 28, 2023 at 11:02:53 AM UTC-4, Jan Panteltje wrote:
On a sunny day (Sat, 28 Jan 2023 02:29:10 +0100) it happened \"Carlos E.R.\"
robin_...@es.invalid> wrote in <6caeajx...@Telcontar.valinor>:
If it is strong encryption, they key has to be big, so not to be kept in
neurones based memory :-DD
Right
I have been using Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious
for all my accounts
Cannot remember how to spell it either, but google always finds it...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious

None of the auto-bots has tried it yet according to my logs.

So I am safe!
Click to expand...

Can you say, supervulnerabletodictionairysearchattacks? Me neither.

I was trying to enter a new password for some work system and it wasn\'t accepted. The tech guy shows up and I had to show him the password I was entering. He said, \"It has to be two words\". But it *is* two words. He kept saying \"two words\". We went around that loop a few times, before I finally realized he meant, words starting with upper case letters!

That\'s what happens when you put geeks in charge of the geek stuff!

--

Rick C.

+- Get 1,000 miles of free Supercharging
+- Tesla referral code - https://ts.la/richard11209
 
On Saturday, January 28, 2023 at 1:15:31 PM UTC-4, Joe Gwinn wrote:
On Sat, 28 Jan 2023 02:29:10 +0100, \"Carlos E.R.\"
robin_...@es.invalid> wrote:

On 2023-01-27 22:54, Sylvia Else wrote:
On 28-Jan-23 4:31 am, Jan Panteltje wrote:
For about 75 Euro (is about the same in US dollars) I bought a 1 TB
USB stick...
Very small thing, smaller than my thumb.

Interesting, put Linux ext4 filesystem on it and ran some tests,
sort of half expected it to be fake, but writing a 500 GB test file
worked,
so spend some time using it to create backups so as to have something
that
you can carry with you....
All of my website, email, code I wrote and one old CD after the other..
Write speed is slow, but read speed seems high enough for HD video.
And it fits in my Raspberry Pi4... or any recent Linux laptop.
http://panteltje.com/pub/1TB_USB_stick_closed_IXIMG_0927.JPG
http://panteltje.com/pub/1TB_USB_stick_open_IXIMG_0929.JPG
Old USB socket!

So also discovered all my CD-R I burned back in about 2002, so 21
years ago (for the mamaticians)
still read 100% and mostly at high speed on my LG M-Disc reader....
All optical media is stored in light proof alu box...

I mean I am used to high capacity, have 2 4 TB harddisks and 2 1 TB
harddisks in use,
but those suck current, make a little noise too and are relatively big
and fragile (dropping is not good for drives),
but this is really small and you can drop it as often as you like...

Who needs cloud storage? carry it anywhere,
I have encrypted the USB stick with latest kwantuum particles of
course...

Most suckers that find it will run MS windows, not sure that even
recognizes ext4 filesystem?
Anyone know?


These days I store important stuff, strongly encrypted, on Amazon, with
the advantage that it can be automated, and is off site, so I\'m OK even
if the house burns down.

And where do you keep the encryption key and software? :-D

If it is strong encryption, they key has to be big, so not to be kept in
neurones based memory :-DD
Not necessarily. The current approach is to use a very long
passphrase that is easily remembered because it isn\'t a long string of
random letters.

Being long enough eliminates the need to be complex or random.

MS BitLocker works that way; I assume their competitors do as well.

.<https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/security/information-protection/bitlocker/bitlocker-device-encryption-overview-windows-10
Click to expand...

https://xkcd.com/936/

--

Rick C.

++ Get 1,000 miles of free Supercharging
++ Tesla referral code - https://ts.la/richard11209
 
On Saturday, January 28, 2023 at 1:26:46 PM UTC-4, Don Y wrote:
On 1/28/2023 10:15 AM, Joe Gwinn wrote:
On Sat, 28 Jan 2023 02:29:10 +0100, \"Carlos E.R.\"
robin_...@es.invalid> wrote:

On 2023-01-27 22:54, Sylvia Else wrote:
On 28-Jan-23 4:31 am, Jan Panteltje wrote:
For about 75 Euro (is about the same in US dollars) I bought a 1 TB
USB stick...
Very small thing, smaller than my thumb.

Interesting, put Linux ext4 filesystem on it and ran some tests,
sort of half expected it to be fake, but writing a 500 GB test file
worked,
so spend some time using it to create backups so as to have something
that
you can carry with you....
All of my website, email, code I wrote and one old CD after the other..
Write speed is slow, but read speed seems high enough for HD video.
And it fits in my Raspberry Pi4... or any recent Linux laptop.
http://panteltje.com/pub/1TB_USB_stick_closed_IXIMG_0927.JPG
http://panteltje.com/pub/1TB_USB_stick_open_IXIMG_0929.JPG
Old USB socket!

So also discovered all my CD-R I burned back in about 2002, so 21
years ago (for the mamaticians)
still read 100% and mostly at high speed on my LG M-Disc reader....
All optical media is stored in light proof alu box...

I mean I am used to high capacity, have 2 4 TB harddisks and 2 1 TB
harddisks in use,
but those suck current, make a little noise too and are relatively big
and fragile (dropping is not good for drives),
but this is really small and you can drop it as often as you like...

Who needs cloud storage? carry it anywhere,
I have encrypted the USB stick with latest kwantuum particles of
course...

Most suckers that find it will run MS windows, not sure that even
recognizes ext4 filesystem?
Anyone know?


These days I store important stuff, strongly encrypted, on Amazon, with
the advantage that it can be automated, and is off site, so I\'m OK even
if the house burns down.

And where do you keep the encryption key and software? :-D

If it is strong encryption, they key has to be big, so not to be kept in
neurones based memory :-DD

Not necessarily. The current approach is to use a very long
passphrase that is easily remembered because it isn\'t a long string of
random letters.

Being long enough eliminates the need to be complex or random.

MS BitLocker works that way; I assume their competitors do as well.
How many of these do you \"commit to memory\"? And, how good will that
memory be in times of stress?

\"Strong secrets\" really only work if you don\'t have many of them.
(because you don\'t want to reuse ANY of them).

Otherwise, you have to start jotting them down, somewhere.
Click to expand...

When I was responsible for US Government secrets, it was forbidden to write down any combinations to the safes. Now, when I create a new password for my online banking, the tell me to write it down.

WTF???

--

Rick C.

--- Get 1,000 miles of free Supercharging
--- Tesla referral code - https://ts.la/richard11209
 
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