USB flash drive security
Is anyone aware of software to lock and prevent the contents of a flash drive being seen? I have used lockngo with Windows but it does not work with MAC OS. Barry -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Unsubscribe - mailto:wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au
Re: USB flash drive security
Hi Barry, One really easy way is just to use an encrypted disc image - all anyone can see is the image file - you just double click it to mount and it asks you for the password. No password, no mount. Just use Disk utility to create it. Cheers Neil -- Neil R. Houghton Albany, Western Australia Tel: +61 8 9841 6063 Email: n...@possumology.com on 21/12/08 12:19 PM, Barry Sexstone at bjsexst...@netspace.net.au wrote: Is anyone aware of software to lock and prevent the contents of a flash drive being seen? I have used lockngo with Windows but it does not work with MAC OS. Barry -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Unsubscribe - mailto:wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Unsubscribe - mailto:wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au
Re: USB flash drive security
Hi Barry, There is a Corsair Flash Padlock. http://www.corsair.com/_datasheets/CMFUSBPADLOCK-4GB.pdf http://www.corsair.com/products/padlock/default.aspx if you feel the need to buy another flashdrive. Creating an Encrypted Disk Image on the FlashDrive as Neil has suggested is good. Just make sure to always eject -- since the disk image is encrypted, if it is damaged, the whole thing goes kaput! Cheers, Ronni On 21/12/2008, at 12:56 PM, Neil Houghton wrote: Hi Barry, One really easy way is just to use an encrypted disc image - all anyone can see is the image file - you just double click it to mount and it asks you for the password. No password, no mount. Just use Disk utility to create it. Cheers Neil -- Neil R. Houghton Albany, Western Australia Tel: +61 8 9841 6063 Email: n...@possumology.com on 21/12/08 12:19 PM, Barry Sexstone at bjsexst...@netspace.net.au wrote: Is anyone aware of software to lock and prevent the contents of a flash drive being seen? I have used lockngo with Windows but it does not work with MAC OS. Barry -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Unsubscribe - mailto:wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au
Re: USB flash drive security
Thanks Neil I was aware of tis method. however. as I understand it this requires setting up a new blank image. I was hoping not to have to copy all the information I have on the flash drive to a somewhere and then copy it back to an encrypted image. Barry On 21/12/2008, at 12:56 PM, Neil Houghton wrote: Hi Barry, One really easy way is just to use an encrypted disc image - all anyone can see is the image file - you just double click it to mount and it asks you for the password. No password, no mount. Just use Disk utility to create it. Cheers Neil -- Neil R. Houghton Albany, Western Australia Tel: +61 8 9841 6063 Email: n...@possumology.com on 21/12/08 12:19 PM, Barry Sexstone at bjsexst...@netspace.net.au wrote: Is anyone aware of software to lock and prevent the contents of a flash drive being seen? I have used lockngo with Windows but it does not work with MAC OS. Barry -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Unsubscribe - mailto:wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Unsubscribe - mailto:wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Unsubscribe - mailto:wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au
Re: USB flash drive security
Thanks for that Ronni. Do you know if these are readily available and if they are horrendously expensive. They look as if they could solve my problem. At the moment I have considerable data duplicated onto two flash drives, one is encrypted for when I need to use it with MAC OS and the other is protected with lockngo for use on Windows machines (yes I occasionally have to use these!). What I need is something to secure the drives for both OS and this could fill the bill. Regards Barry On 21/12/2008, at 1:07 PM, Ronda Brown wrote: Hi Barry, There is a Corsair Flash Padlock. http://www.corsair.com/_datasheets/CMFUSBPADLOCK-4GB.pdf http://www.corsair.com/products/padlock/default.aspx if you feel the need to buy another flashdrive. Creating an Encrypted Disk Image on the FlashDrive as Neil has suggested is good. Just make sure to always eject -- since the disk image is encrypted, if it is damaged, the whole thing goes kaput! Cheers, Ronni On 21/12/2008, at 12:56 PM, Neil Houghton wrote: Hi Barry, One really easy way is just to use an encrypted disc image - all anyone can see is the image file - you just double click it to mount and it asks you for the password. No password, no mount. Just use Disk utility to create it. Cheers Neil -- Neil R. Houghton Albany, Western Australia Tel: +61 8 9841 6063 Email: n...@possumology.com on 21/12/08 12:19 PM, Barry Sexstone at bjsexst...@netspace.net.au wrote: Is anyone aware of software to lock and prevent the contents of a flash drive being seen? I have used lockngo with Windows but it does not work with MAC OS. Barry -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Unsubscribe - mailto:wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Unsubscribe - mailto:wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au
Re: USB flash drive security
Well, that's one way of doing it. Another way is to create a blank disc image (or more than one if you want to split the info into parts) on your mac, then copy the info from the flash drive to the disc image(s) on the mac. Then erase the flash drive before copying the disc images across. I don't know of any way to leave the info in situ on the flash drive and just lock the drive - but you could always Google - it's amazing what you can find out there! Cheers Neil -- Neil R. Houghton Albany, Western Australia Tel: +61 8 9841 6063 Email: n...@possumology.com on 21/12/08 1:39 PM, Barry Sexstone at bjsexst...@netspace.net.au wrote: Thanks Neil I was aware of tis method. however. as I understand it this requires setting up a new blank image. I was hoping not to have to copy all the information I have on the flash drive to a somewhere and then copy it back to an encrypted image. Barry On 21/12/2008, at 12:56 PM, Neil Houghton wrote: Hi Barry, One really easy way is just to use an encrypted disc image - all anyone can see is the image file - you just double click it to mount and it asks you for the password. No password, no mount. Just use Disk utility to create it. Cheers Neil -- Neil R. Houghton Albany, Western Australia Tel: +61 8 9841 6063 Email: n...@possumology.com on 21/12/08 12:19 PM, Barry Sexstone at bjsexst...@netspace.net.au wrote: Is anyone aware of software to lock and prevent the contents of a flash drive being seen? I have used lockngo with Windows but it does not work with MAC OS. Barry -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Unsubscribe - mailto:wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au
Re: USB flash drive security
Hi Barry, http://www.tech4u.com.au/product_info.php? products_id=68764ref=ShopBot $51.77 5 in stock http://www.techbuy.com.au/p/81791/FLASH_USBFLASH2/Corsair/CMFUSBPADLOCK-4GB.asp $62.80. RRP $77 Or give Daniel Kerr a call. He will probably be able to source one for you. Cheers, Ronni On 21/12/2008, at 2:36 PM, Barry Sexstone wrote: Thanks for that Ronni. Do you know if these are readily available and if they are horrendously expensive. They look as if they could solve my problem. At the moment I have considerable data duplicated onto two flash drives, one is encrypted for when I need to use it with MAC OS and the other is protected with lockngo for use on Windows machines (yes I occasionally have to use these!). What I need is something to secure the drives for both OS and this could fill the bill. Regards Barry On 21/12/2008, at 1:07 PM, Ronda Brown wrote: Hi Barry, There is a Corsair Flash Padlock. http://www.corsair.com/_datasheets/CMFUSBPADLOCK-4GB.pdf http://www.corsair.com/products/padlock/default.aspx if you feel the need to buy another flashdrive. Creating an Encrypted Disk Image on the FlashDrive as Neil has suggested is good. Just make sure to always eject -- since the disk image is encrypted, if it is damaged, the whole thing goes kaput! Cheers, Ronni -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Unsubscribe - mailto:wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au
Re: USB flash drive security
Many Thanks On 21/12/2008, at 2:50 PM, Ronda Brown wrote: Hi Barry, http://www.tech4u.com.au/product_info.php?products_id=68764ref=ShopBot $51.77 5 in stock http://www.techbuy.com.au/p/81791/FLASH_USBFLASH2/Corsair/CMFUSBPADLOCK-4GB.asp $62.80. RRP $77 Or give Daniel Kerr a call. He will probably be able to source one for you. Cheers, Ronni On 21/12/2008, at 2:36 PM, Barry Sexstone wrote: Thanks for that Ronni. Do you know if these are readily available and if they are horrendously expensive. They look as if they could solve my problem. At the moment I have considerable data duplicated onto two flash drives, one is encrypted for when I need to use it with MAC OS and the other is protected with lockngo for use on Windows machines (yes I occasionally have to use these!). What I need is something to secure the drives for both OS and this could fill the bill. Regards Barry On 21/12/2008, at 1:07 PM, Ronda Brown wrote: Hi Barry, There is a Corsair Flash Padlock. http://www.corsair.com/_datasheets/CMFUSBPADLOCK-4GB.pdf http://www.corsair.com/products/padlock/default.aspx if you feel the need to buy another flashdrive. Creating an Encrypted Disk Image on the FlashDrive as Neil has suggested is good. Just make sure to always eject -- since the disk image is encrypted, if it is damaged, the whole thing goes kaput! Cheers, Ronni -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Unsubscribe - mailto:wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Unsubscribe - mailto:wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au
