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Forget walking around with a usb stick. Maybe you can get your data sequenced into DNA and spliced into your genome... microsoft-experiments-with-dna-storage-1000000000-tb-in-a-gram. Or by my seat of the pants calculation 1GB per picogram. They must be thinking they can improve on the encoding to compress the data compared with nature... The DNA in a human genome weighs 3.59 picograms and contains about 1.5GB of data. I was thinking one might hide data in ones own genome; an improved 'Johnny Memonic'. But really, there is not room for even doubling that in a human without imposing too large a metabolic load. Maybe we can breed a critter with more of its cell function devoted to data storage to keep some data over the very long term and then tie it into symbiosis with a human or animal (e.g. Data Dog in Cowboy Bebop). But then you get mutations introduced over long time.

What about firmware viruses? And it's just 750MB.

If they invent a better DNA CRC checker to go with it then sure, would prevent a great deal of health issues that currently exist from DNA replication.

It will open a new attack vector and form of data muling.

I'm sure it's much easier to just have some sort of implant that stores encrypted data.