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Ratool — Because firewalls can’t stop everything

Posted on March 14, 2022 at 02:45 CDT by Deanna McElveen • Comment in the Forums

ISSUE 19.11 • 2022-03-14

FREEWARE SPOTLIGHT

By Deanna McElveen

Everyone is walking around with the storage of a 1990s supercomputer in their pockets. Jingling around with the pennies and nickels, flash drives are an old-school data thief’s best friend.

Remember those first computer-hacker movies where the thief, spy, or 14-year-old had only a few minutes to copy a file from a computer before being caught red-handed? Oh, the suspense of watching that file-copy window slowly progress as the floppy drive ground away.

Read the full story in the AskWoody Plus Newsletter 19.11.0 (2022-03-14).
This story also appears in the AskWoody Newsletter 19.11.F (2022-03-14).

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