The most secure USB Flash Drive
USB keys have already become THE way to carry data around with you. they probably already share your pocket space with your house/car keys too (actually, in my case, the pockets were full already with a wallet, cellphone, headphones and a lighter (I’m a pyro), so I had to choose between my house keys and my USB stick - let’s just say that it takes some time to find my house keys in my shoulder bag). But a small USB stick is easy to misplace/drop/leave somewhere. And then someone will surely find it, and look through whatever you have on it - your downloaded legally obtained audio files, confidential information, will surely use your password manager, etc. (you don’t actually carry porn on our flash drives, right? and if you do, get rid of it or get rid of any evidence that it belongs to you - think if someone tries to return it by walking up to you and saying “here’s your USB stick with your porn collection”…cruel)
Well, IRONKEY USB drive is the perfect answer. It has a scrambling chip, that works basically by distorting your data to the point where it’s no longer recognisable using your password for the distortion pattern. And it won’t be able to unscramble it without knowing the password, so just reading the data would be useless (not that you could do it without specific equipment). Brute-forcing (having a program try out passwords) is useless - you only get 10 attempts at guessing. Fail to do so in those 10 attempts, and the encryption chip dies, destroying nearly all chances to retrieve the information. Lastly, working on the hardware level would be a pain as well, because in addition to being unable to unscramble the info, the insides of the drive are filled with epoxy, so attempting to open it would most likely result in damaging the drive beyond repair.
Oh, by the way, the case is really made from steel - that’s not painted plastic. And it’s totally waterproof, exceeding military standarts.
There’s the problem with drivers - only Windows XP and Windows Vista for now, but drivers for Linux And MacOSX are in development.
This is something that I really recommend getting. Keeping your data safe might not be too important for an individual, as long as you don’t have anything incriminating in your flash drive, but for businesses it could be invaluable. Recommend it to your boss (if you have one) - maybe he’ll like the idea (appearing smart in front of your boss is a good thing…I think).
These come in three models:
1 Gigabyte: $78.99
2 Gigabyte: $109.00
4 Gigabyte: $148.99
Found on thinkgeek.