Mobile devices sometimes get lost. A laptop bag gets left on the bus or train, a smartphone slips out of your pocket, or a USB flash drive falls to the ground unnoticed. Losing a notebook or phone ...

Hollywood has a long history of grossly exaggerating hacking scenes. A nerdy guy hacking into a large corporation in seconds with just a few keystrokes is a classic example of an overused movie trope.

If you’re like me, you’ve accumulated a lot of USB flash drives over the years, to the point where most of them are sitting unused and in storage. But recently I’ve come to realize that an old flash ...