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Flash Drives and the Death Star
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Flash Drives and the Death Star
Copyright © January 04, 2016 Douglas W. Jerving.
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I am officially done with USB flash/thumb drives. Too many incompatibilities.
OneDrive works better, and so does Google Play. Sorry to you diehard anti-clouders,
but your technology is going the way of the VCR. External HDs will soon go that way
as well.
My thumb drives were only used for file transfer between my various devices anyway,
and they never were very secure platforms if they were lost or stolen. Half the time
they were unrecognizable from one device to the other, and when you are using 5
different devices it is a nightmare trying to juggle all their various updates,
including software that is no longer supported.
I offer kudos to the Mac iOS for at least handling file transfer between devices
better than Windows and Android. Mac iOS is one system across the board. Windows
and Android systems still need handshaking to make them compatible. Mac iOS systems
were always ahead of the competitors when it came to cloud-based movement. Unfortunately
they are determined to keep users stuck in the Mac iOS gulag.
I will never go Mac because I am fundamentally opposed to being tied to one
monster. One that ultimately owns my way of doing things and can change it on a
whim, leaving me with no other options. Mac is the First Order: the Dark Side that
intends to run everything within their universe. OneDrive and Google are still the
rebel forces. They still recognize the multiverse.
OneDrive and Google Play work great for what I need to do, way better than flash
drives and other connected device technologies.
They also work better than iOS because they do not automatically change my data
across all my devices without my permissions. I control my data across all my
devices, rather than the cloud doing so arbitrarily. It is bad enough I must set
all sorts of arcane, even Byzantine, permissions with my iPhone for work.
For instance, why does iOS automatically delete all my contacts when another user
on the same network updates? It never even asks for permission; it just adds theirs
and deletes all of mine! So now I have contacts from everyone else on the same
network including Ma and Pa Kettle, Hemorrhoids, and Class Clown, but none of my
real contacts. What do I care about the guy in the Accounts Receivable department's
associations with Luvturd? With iOS I must jump through flaming hoops just to keep
my own contacts clean.
On my Android phone I still "own" my devices and how they play with one another. On
my work iOS phone my contacts are potentially everyone else's contacts, and my
personal emails now belong to the company. Not that I have anything to hide, (except
maybe my bank accounts, passwords, histories, et al.), Should I really have to worry
about privacy in that network? After all, I completely trust everyone I work
with! (Anyone who thinks that way needs to read Kevin Mitnick’s book The Art of
Deception: Controlling the Human Element of Security. A naïvely innocent desire to
be helpful is often the greatest threat to security.)
My contacts become everyone else's contacts unless I create a completely new email
account for personal use on my iPhone and then never use it for anything
else. Otherwise I must jump through several layers of protection that are not made
obvious to me as a basic user. Candy coated horse apples.
The iOS system is a dark-force system designed to serve the Empire. It is the
equivalent of malware or phishing software. The iOS is Blackberry on steroids. It
is the Death Star. That is why so many companies choose it over the Android OS. It
is designed to serve corporate interests; to keep you in their surveillance
system. Any thing you do on it is automatically consumed by the corporation. That
used to be called Big Brother. Now it is Big Sister (BS).
My iPhone is never used for anything but work. It never will be used for anything
but work. My personal phone (a Samsung Note 5) is fully capable of accessing
anything I need from work when necessary, but it does not share anything I don't
allow. On my Android phone the Death Star does not have permissions.
May the Force still be with us!
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Doug Jerving is the publisher of the NewEdisonGazette.com. You may contact him at
dje@newedisongazette.com.
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