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.
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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
