WTF is the point of adding more biometric security to a device that cannot and does not support data integrity? that flash memory held within the thumbdrive keeps your data in clear text...unless of course you store everything within some form of encrypted disk. even then, the
quick and dirty way to bypass the bio-security us to pull the card out of the usb enclosure and start poking at the contents. bah. Date: Fri, 24 Jan 2003 09:52:50 -0500 From: Tyler Durden <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Deniable Thumbdrive? I got a hold of a little gadget recently that is very nearly perfect for certain forms of data storage. It's called a "Thumbdrive" and I bought it online somewhere (64Meg for about $179 or so). The cool thing about this drive (small enough that it has holes for use as a keychain) is that it's got a "Public" area and a private area, and the private area is accessible (if one desires) only via the little fingerprint reader on the top of the drive. (It's also USB based, and on Windows2000 and beyond you don't need any software drivers--just plug it in to a USB port and it appears as a drive). ANyway, I was wondering. I'd really like a nice software mod of this thing so that, depending on which finger I use for verification, a different private area on the drive will open (right now several users can be assigned access by the master user to use their fingerprint for access to the single private area). Of course, there should be no indication that there even IS more than one private area. So...anyone heard of such a hack/mod, or is there a straightforward way to go about doing it oneself? -TD _________________________________________________________________ Tired of spam? Get advanced junk mail protection with MSN 8. http://join.msn.com/?page=features/junkmail
