Your Life in a Flash continued …
According to ANDREA JONES, Atlanta Journal-Constitution:
•A Texas A&M professor lost a flash drive containing 8,000 student Social Security numbers on a vacation in Madagascar.
•An accounting professor at Bowling Green University told administrators he lost a flash drive that contained 199 Social Security numbers of students he had taught 15 years ago.
These are just a couple examples of why it is so important to have a biometric flash drive when you are storing such valuable information. I feel that I did not get my point across in my last week’s blog entry, so I am here to give it the justification it deserves. The amount of information stored behind passwords and usernames is scary; don’t get me wrong because we obviously need these for many different occasions on the computer. But, think how much safer data would be if it had a solid biometric wall with a username and password backing it. Others would be powerless!
Tons of people save all their important information right on their computer’s hard drive and expect that every morning when they get back into their computer that it will be there again. But how do we ever know? You don’t, so that is why anyone with important data on their computer needs to back it up on a biometric flash drive, because you can never go wrong. It is your fingerprint that holds the key to all the information on the drive, so even if you lose the drive, your information is not being hacked into. This is a step that everyone needs to take because what if you were the one responsible for losing a flash drive with 8,000 student’s social security numbers on it? I am guessing that you would be wishing you had a biometric flash drive! The chances of you loosing your flash drive are still the same, but the chance of someone getting into your data is slim to none.
