Computer World Magazine just posted an article reviewing 7 "secure" USB drives from major manufacturers. Some funny and sad stuff in there, especially what sort of gimmicks these vendors put in to try and make their drives "secure". In the end they chose IronKey, but really putting free and open source TrueCrypt on any old USB key would do a better job (for cheaper) than almost all of these:
http://www.computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=viewArticleBasic&articleId=9062527 I think I liked this quote the best: "Kingston refused to say what encryption mode the device runs in, citing that it was proprietary information." ----- Brian Weeden Technical Consultant Secure World Foundation On Mon, Mar 3, 2008 at 4:51 PM, Wayne Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > At 12:57 PM 3/3/2008, Thane Sherrington typed: > >Of course, no one could ever write down said personal information on > >a piece of paper. :) > > Then Post Its must not be paper. ;-) > > > ---------------+-------------- > I'm a geek that loves to tweak. > >
