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Toshiba Adds Two-Way Wi-Fi To SD Card
judgecorp writes "Toshiba has announced an SD card with Wi-Fi. This is an advance on previous products such as the Eye-Fi Pro X2, as it allows two-way transfers over Wi-Fi. This will be a very convenient feature. It has been labelled a security worry — but most of us already have cameras with wireless connections ... called phones."
We may all already have phones - but this would be invaluable for someone who takes a professional-quality image or video of say, law enforcement. Any data recorded stands a better chance of being immediately put out of reach from your average plod
"You want me to erase all the evidence I just recorded of you officer? Of course."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Secure_Digital#SDIO
So your camera is an orange?
No, what it means is that you can have a scheme something like:
What this means is that a photographer can shoot until their battery runs out while a nearby notebook or WiFi enabled SAN device records the images. Instead of being limited to 32 GB, you can happily fill a terabyte drive or more.
Or if you're concerned about the data's safety locally (journalist working in a dangerous area, someone taking pictures of authorities who might take the camera away) you can even set the device that's receiving the images to upload into a remote FTP or some kind of cloud based service.
Or am I missing something?
Touch everywhere, even when inappropriate.
I think everyone's missing the point regarding the meaning of that quote.... I took it as the OP saying the following - "there has been potential security worries flagged up by people regarding having WiFi enabled SD (I suppose especially 2-way ones), however this technology has existed for years in phones, and whilst security can be a worry, it can be mitigated with proper management".
the storage capability matters because you can't upload sdio drivers to your camera.. that's the only reason, really, miniaturising them wouldn't have been the problem, but doing the storage link needs sw and engineering, and something at the other end. still, how does one configure it?
(and there's that direct upload wifi sd card that has been out for a while, so two way probably means you could stick this in your smartphone and upload stuff back too, and that's why this is different from the sdio wifi cards, technically though it's just putting 1+1 together and I have to really wonder about compatibility..)
world was created 5 seconds before this post as it is.
This isn't a SDIO card but rather from the host device appears as a standard block storage card. Presumably finding a way of modifying the file-system without causing corruption is what qualifies this as news.
The easy way way would have been to have placeholder files that were always visible to the host device. Which when read where blank, until new files where actually received.
I expect they have gone an extra step and found a way of forcing the host to reload the FAT (so the files get relevant filenames), possibly simply by simulating an ejection/insertion, or perhaps just by emulating a cleverly structured read failure. This may catch a few devices out, but probably works well enough in the higher end devices they are targeting.