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 Anyone seen this USB drive?
#8395151 - 05/13/08 12:34 AM (3 months, 24 days ago) |
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I am getting one of these in the very near future no doubt about it. They are kinda steep though.
Anyone have any thoughts about this product? Good or bad.
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 Helixx
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Do you have any rational need for it to be indestructible and encrypted?
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 Re: Anyone seen this USB drive? [Re: Helixx]
#8395236 - 05/13/08 01:19 AM (3 months, 24 days ago) |
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Yes.
A 2and a half year old son (indestructible) and a nosey g/f (encryption).
Paired with this. She would be driven batty. 
All jokes aside, I am still going to have one. Who doesn't want something that self destructs when fucked with? Kinda adds some mission impossible/james bond qualities to it.
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True. It's k3y to feel like James Bond when hiding your pr0n from your gf.
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Re: Anyone seen this USB drive? [Re: Helixx]
#8395309 - 05/13/08 01:57 AM (3 months, 24 days ago) |
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I imagine it could also be used to hide shroom grow pics from house mates. Maybe even hide video of a friends drunk g/f blowing everyone at the party. 
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johnm214
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That looks pretty expensive. It looks like its over 4 times as expensive as a normal USB drive.
If it were me, I'd just use a normal drive and manually encrypt the data using pgp encryption or something.
Seuss and diploid seem to know a fair amount about encryption, so if your concerned w/ the strength of the data protection, maybe wait for them to stop by, but off hand it seems pretty expensive. If you like, maybe post in Science and Tech asking for some help evaluating it. I don't think diploid stops by this forum too much, but Seuss does.
Seems the only real advantage is that it automatically encrypts, but I'd imagine you could set something like that up on your own. Or, you could simply manually encrypt anything you put on there. I'd imagine that as long as you decrypt to a local drive, not the USB one, you'd have no problem of deleted data being retained on the drive itself, and you could always use free secure erase programs when you feel like it.
Just some thoughts.
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Re: Anyone seen this USB drive? [Re: johnm214]
#8397261 - 05/13/08 03:18 PM (3 months, 23 days ago) |
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Quote:
johnm214 said:
If it were me, I'd just use a normal drive and manually encrypt the data using pgp encryption or something.
I agree, hell with buying overpriced pieces of junk when PGP can be obtained free, if someoen really wants to have fun they just need one of these devices
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Re: Anyone seen this USB drive? [Re: Prisoner#1]
#8397757 - 05/13/08 05:45 PM (3 months, 23 days ago) |
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I managed to get one free from work, and its not that great. you're better off with PGP or truecrypt. I guess the vidalia/tor/privoxy/firefox browser is nice to have if you use a lot of different computers.
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Re: Anyone seen this USB drive? [Re: Crasher]
#8397769 - 05/13/08 05:50 PM (3 months, 23 days ago) |
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Only problem with PGP is there's no good cross-platform way to encrypt an entire disk. Encrypting and decrypting individual files gets to be a pain in the ass after awhile.
Truecrypt seems like a nice solution, didn't realize it had Linux support now, wonder if that'll work in BSD too... 
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Re: Anyone seen this USB drive? [Re: slackophage]
#8402802 - 05/14/08 09:42 PM (3 months, 22 days ago) |
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useless for me
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Re: Anyone seen this USB drive? [Re: Knot_Nate92]
#8406471 - 05/15/08 06:54 PM (3 months, 21 days ago) |
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I would suggest just buying a rugged usb drive, like the ocz atv, or the corsair voyager - then just putting TrueCrypt on it, and install portable apps. TrueCrypt is amazing, just found out about it a few months ago, and I've been running like that for a while now, just because I got sick of reinstalling after every reformat. Now I just copy and paste all of my programs from drive to drive, or load them directly off my usb drives / externals.
e.g. hard drive with movies and music, has portable winamp, vlc, powerdvd (for hd), etc. Not need to install, just double click and it's running.
on my portable 4gb usb, i have everything from cinema 4d, photoshop, firefox, dreamweaver, lightroom, flash, norton, etc. Using programs such as Thinstall (now owned by vmware) you can make almost any program portable, and therefore easily encryptable - cache, temp files, history, everything. To anyone without the password, it will just look like a bunch of junk files, and if they try to open those junk files, it's heavily encrypted, based on whatever settings you want.
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