In our digital age, fears of data being compromised is high in positions such as law enforcement and politics. Sandisk has released a solution for these woes, entitled "WORM". (Write Once Read Many=WORM).These SD cards, currently available in only 128mb form, cannot be erased or modified once files have been put on it. Sandisk will be releasing higher capacity versions later this year.
Uses for this include police witness and suspect interviews, cash registers, electronic voting and really annoying yourself when you accidentally buy one down the shops and realise you can't use it again.
"As digital media volume has grown and surpassed traditional analogue media such as film and audio cassettes in the consumer market, law enforcement agencies and other professionals are facing rising costs and lack of supply," said Christopher Moore, director of product marketing for OEM memory cards at SanDisk.
View: TechRadar
Like trying to write twice on a CD that is not RW .. no amount of hackers will do.
EPROM chips where kinda like WORM memory... they where writen to once but were also erasable under ultraviolet light
Also like someone else said above, why are we re-inventing something that already exists?
CD-R with close disc session anyone?
Plus, I'm sure someone will reverse engineer the "lock" on it.
Also, CD-R's don't fit into cameras, as I believe that this is the targetted usage (ie: digital photos that can't be manipulated).
This is in fact an evolutionary product,in wich sandisk can find huge profit. And no it isn't an EPROM chip,it's a tech aimed at storage devices.howver i don't know what kind of tech they've put this in.
However, with the speed and size of SD cards, this could be helpful for storing information that one don't need to delete/edit.
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