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Bigger hard drives and a thriving assortment of viruses to put on them, and maybe a song or two.

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Written by Dewed

Don't get me wrong. I love technology. I am the typical dude (actually it's Dewed)
who loves to check out the latest gizmo. So as I'm reading the news, I run accross a story,
apparently Hitachi has made a breakthough in hard drive technology and is forecasting
4 Terabyte hard drives to be available for PCs by 2011.

Virii, Trojans and Phish ! Oh my !

A quote from the article "Current hard disks can store about 200 gigabits of information
per square inch (6.4sqcms) while Hitachi believes its new technology means it can store up to 1 terabit of data per square inch." a 500% increase.

So what will you do with all that space ? Well the same article says "a 4TB drive (is) able to hold more than a million songs." Hrm.. ok.. Too bad we have no room left, why? Well because of the viruses of course..

The very next article I run accross says "The number of viruses, worms and trojans in circulation has topped the one million mark." I have to wonder, do these journelists get together and publish these stories simaltaneously on purpose?

A larger quote this time (there are a million of them afterall) "The latest edition of the Symantec report covers the second half of 2007 during which time the security firm detected 499,811 new malicious code threats. This figure was up 136% on the first six months of 2007. Throughout 2007 Symantec detected more than 711,912 novel threats which brings the total number of malicious programs that the security firm's anti-virus programs detect to 1,122,311.

The report notes: "almost two thirds of all malicious code threats currently detected were created during 2007." " Notice that is 1.12 million that they can detect! I know they are good, but I'm betting there are at least a few hundred that they haven't isolated yet.

There must be pretty good money in the virus writing racket, and you know what that means right?
It's only going to get worse. A continual game of one up manship with your and my computer acting
as pawns on a chess board that surrounds the globe, litterally. All that personal data (and I do mean
all of that 4.0 terabytes of personal data, including your 999,999 songs just waiting to be sifted through to get your World of Warcraft login, and maybe even your credit card number.

It's like they are forcing the Orwellian style of life down our throats! How else can we use the greatest
invention of the century in a secure fashion unless we succumb to retenal scanning, sporting our biometrically printed UPC symbols?

Well I still like technology, actually better than most people and I'm apparently right, because a whole lot of people are just money grubbing virus writers... but I better watch what I say. I'd hate to get one mad at me.

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