USB drives are also good for storing changing files that need to be moved between work and home. You can burn more files to a CD but that takes more than 30 seconds,
A company where I used to work got paranoid about its employees walking out the door with its precious intellectual property on those things, and installed something called 'Hibun' to prevent just that. From then on, anyone who "needed" to move data to a USB drive had to use one specially made for the Hibun system, and a "key" to permit transfer in a form that could only be read on another "authorized" computer.
That was... fun.
And, let me guess, it was probably trivial to break for the black hat guys?
I can't say I really know. I didn't hear about anyone breaking it, certainly.
> You can burn more files to a CD but that takes more than 30 seconds,
CDs are 700MB. You can get GB+ USB thumb drives for free.
Perhaps IChrisI was a bit sloppy, and actually meant DVD-R?