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Fake/Hacked High Capacity USB Flash Drives being sold on Trademe
I have started to notice a large number of Fake/Hacked High Capacity USB Flash Drives being listed on Trade Me.
The drives are being sold as 64GB, 128GB, 256GB or 512GB USB Flash Drives, but in fact are lower capacity drives (normally 8GB or less) which have had the firmware hacked so that they report a higher capacity. This is a big issue overseas and the drives are commonly sold on ebay and can be easily purchased via China in bulk.
The drive will report the hacked capacity in Windows, Mac OS and will function fine until they reach the true capacity. Once this happens the drives will corrupt any additional data being written to the drive.
In the past I have reported these to Trademe and they were quick to remove the listings, especially if the drive was a branded counterfeit product. I have reported several of these listing to Trademe recently and Trademe has done nothing.
To prove that these drives were fake I have purchased a 256GB USB Flash Drive from a seller on Trademe and ran diagnostic tests on the device ...
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Inland Revenue - Issue Alert re Cloud Computing - December 2010
IRD Issue Alert RA 10/02: Using cloud computing services to store business records in electronic form. "It is the Commissioner™s view that only business records stored in data centres physically located in New Zealand will comply with the record keeping obligations in the Inland Revenue Acts. Taxpayers are responsible for ensuring they comply with their record keeping obligations. Therefore, taxpayers using a cloud computing service will need to be satisfied that all their business records will be stored in data centres located in New Zealand.Read the full IRD Alert here.
Related IRD Statement: GNL-430 Retention of business records by electronic means
Microsoft Releases Internet Explorer 9 (preview) with HTML5 Support - March 2010
Microsoft has made a preview release of Internet Explorer 9 available to the publicThe Link:http://ie.microsoft.com/testdrive/
Notes from Microsoft Website
"The Platform Preview is an early look at the Internet Explorer 9 platform so some features are incomplete ..."
Microsoft discontinues Microsoft Office Accounting - November 2009
Notice from Microsoft™s Website - 16th November 2009Distribution of Microsoft Office Accounting was discontinued effective November 16, 2009.
We would like to thank the many dedicated users and partners who have been enthusiastic supporters of Office Accounting over the years.
Customers who purchased a product license for Office Accounting before November 16, 2009 may continue to use Office Accounting. Product support for Office Accounting will continue in accordance with the published Microsoft product support life cycle.
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