ElectronGuru
Flashaholic
Put in the wrong password 10 times and the thing self-destructs!:
http://www.reghardware.co.uk/2007/09/05/review_ironkey/
http://www.reghardware.co.uk/2007/09/05/review_ironkey/
IronKey Flash Drive
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gorn
Enlightened
The encryption is on the chip.
goldenlight
Enlightened
The 2GB version is available from Staples for only $109.99
Gosh, I'll take two.
One for me, and one for Mr. Bond.
There is NO form of security which can't be broken by some geek living in his parent's basement.
I just Bought a Kensington 2GB flash drive for $14.99, plus tax= $16.05
No encryption. If it gets lost, no worrys.
Gosh, I'll take two.
One for me, and one for Mr. Bond.
There is NO form of security which can't be broken by some geek living in his parent's basement.
I just Bought a Kensington 2GB flash drive for $14.99, plus tax= $16.05
No encryption. If it gets lost, no worrys.
TacticalGrilling
Newly Enlightened
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I think the encryption is a separate component, physically in front of the NAND. Also, you can't remove the actual memory component: they fill the casing with epoxy during assembly. Try and open and you'll have some busted up chips. Pretty cool tech. Plus the proxy browsing, etc.
Be Safe, Grill Tactical.
-Nick
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Be Safe, Grill Tactical.
-Nick
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Illum
Flashaholic
from what I've learned from binary encryption and what I've read from think geek's descriptions, it will render the files unreadable [basically modifies or deletes the encryption key, and if its binary, then just delete the first digit and add to the last digit]....but it didn't give hint of self destruct behavior
I don't see a point of having a product that self destructs....
My computer's password alone uses a time consuming brain-teasing, 27 letters.....and what does it protect? my CPF files and 60GBs of not work safe data....had the computer self destructs every 10th time I typed in the wrong password, I'd probably bought more computers than mountain dews [and thats alot already]
I don't see a point of having a product that self destructs....
My computer's password alone uses a time consuming brain-teasing, 27 letters.....and what does it protect? my CPF files and 60GBs of not work safe data....had the computer self destructs every 10th time I typed in the wrong password, I'd probably bought more computers than mountain dews [and thats alot already]
hank
Flashlight Enthusiast
I read a while back about a security firm that was hired to "tiger team" a big multinational company that was very proud of their security. They'd decided to get everything tested to be able to brag about how secure everything was. Lots of cameras, keypad combinations, guards, motion sensors, everything password-protected.
The tiger team went out and bought a few dozen cheap little USB flash drives, loaded them up with trojans and cracking tools, and then 'lost' them outside the company's staff entrances over the next few days.
They never even had to get physically past the front door, they got completely into the company's security -- thanks to all the employees who thought, "Oh, look, somebody dropped a flash drive. Lucky me!" and took it in with them and plugged it into their office machine before getting their coffee.
The tiger team went out and bought a few dozen cheap little USB flash drives, loaded them up with trojans and cracking tools, and then 'lost' them outside the company's staff entrances over the next few days.
They never even had to get physically past the front door, they got completely into the company's security -- thanks to all the employees who thought, "Oh, look, somebody dropped a flash drive. Lucky me!" and took it in with them and plugged it into their office machine before getting their coffee.
adamlau
Flashlight Enthusiast
I have two of their 2GB Enterprise Special Edition drives, but find myself using the ATP 2GB with TrueCrypt partitions more often. I am just not a fan of the IronKey UI...
