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Victorinox Secure Pro USB drive is ‘un-hackable,’ can file your nails

This isn’t the first USB drive / Swiss army knife we’ve seen from Victorinox, but the company’s new Secure Pro drive is the first that is supposedly “un-hackable.” To put that claim to the test, Victorinox actually offered a £100,000 prize to a team of “professional hackers” if they could crack the drive during the company’s launch event — they were unable to do so. That un-hackableness apparently comes primarily from the drive’s combination of AES256 technology and fingerprint security, which is paired with (get this) a self-destruct mechanism that irrevocably burns the CPU and memory chip if there’s any attempt to force the drive open. All that and a pair of scissors — how can you go wrong? No word on a release over here just yet, but the drive is now available in the UK in capacities from 8GB to 32GB for between £50 and £180 (or about $75 to $270).

[Thanks, Nikolas R]

Victorinox Secure Pro USB drive is ‘un-hackable,’ can file your nails originally appeared on Engadget on Sun, 28 Mar 2010 03:07:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Posted: March 28th, 2010
at 8:07am by Donald Melanson

Topics: Flash Drive, FlashDrive, Secure Pro USB, SecureProUsb, Security, Self-destructMechanism, SwissArmy, SwissArmyKnife, ThumbDrive, USB drive, UsbDrive, Victorinox, Victorinox Secure Pro USB, VictorinoxSecureProUsb, ae256, multi tool, multitool, secure, self-destruct, self-destruct mechanism, swiss army, swiss army knife, thumb drive

USB PC Prankster: guaranteed to freak out, enrage your cubicle mates

Oh, brother. As we all know so well, the office can be a draining place. But devices such as these could make even the most burnt-out middle manager excited to clock in. The USB PC Prankster looks like a stock flash drive, but as you can clearly see above, a few toggle switches enable it to become quite the headache. Once plugged in, the unlucky PC that it’s attached to will have its Caps Lock enabled and disabled at random, see garbled text splattered about quarterly reports and be victim to uncontrollable, erratic cursor movements. Thankfully, the drive will never activate the Enter key nor close or save documents, so you can rest assured that it’s all in good fun. Turning your office up on its head costs just £19.99 ($33), but you’ll have to wait a tick ’til it comes back in stock.

[Via Switched]

Filed under: Peripherals

USB PC Prankster: guaranteed to freak out, enrage your cubicle mates originally appeared on Engadget on Sun, 18 Oct 2009 15:33:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Posted: October 18th, 2009
at 4:33pm by Darren Murph

Topics: CapsLock, Flash Drive, FlashDrive, PC Prankster, PcPrankster, USB, USB Computer Prankster, USB drive, UsbComputerPrankster, UsbDrive, UsbPrankDrive, caps lock, joke, prank, usb prank drive

DIY: Secure your data using the Konami code

Ahh the Konami code. Favorite cheat of gamers for years, it lives in legend and will never die. Much like that Rick Astley video. And while it might not be the most secure way to lock your data, it certainly raises your geek cred.

Since it’s all about the geek cred, one of the clever monkeys at Protodojo built a custom flash drive using an NES controller. Not content to just make a cool looking drive (and it is cool, no doubt) the intrepid builder also added a security feature that requires you to enter the aforementioned Konami code in order to access your data.

Now obviously, this is a one off product, and not available for sale. The good news is, if you were slightly dishonest and saw this sitting somewhere and grabbed it, you’d at least know how to access the data.

[via Joystiq]

Posted: October 15th, 2009
at 3:30pm by Dave Freeman

Topics: DIY, Flash Drive, Headline, Konami, NES

4GB Star Trek Flash Drive Comes Loaded With The New Film [USB]

Star Trek, merchandising and obsessive fans go hand in hand, so it is not surprising that the new film is being released on an individually numbered 4GB Starfleet insignia USB drive.

Needless to say, the drive is also loaded up with DRM—but you are allowed to run it on 5 registered devices and burn it to DVD, so it’s not unreasonable. And since it has been deemed as a “collectible”, fans will surely line up to fork over their $29. [Play via OhGizmo]

Posted: October 12th, 2009
at 1:40pm by Sean Fallon

Topics: Flash Drive, Star trek usb, Star-Trek, USB, movie, thumb drive

Rap Group Hands Out Uzi-Shaped Flash Drive Album [USB]

If you’re a fan of novelty USB drives, submachine guns, and rap, I’ve got a treat for you: The Get Busy Committee stuck their upcoming album Uzi Does It on uzi-shaped flash drives to create an unholy threesome. [Wired]