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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

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Can You Figure Out All the Uses for the Piranha Multitool? [Tools]

When it comes to multitools, you can never have enough functions and the Pocket Tool X Piranha really takes that thought to heart. I can’t even figure out half the things it’s supposed to do. Can you?

I know that there’s at least a bottle opener, a nail puller, a scraper pry ends, a double-ended bit holder, a bunch of wrenches on this thing, but it somehow looks like you’re getting some sort of hidden functions for your $50. I just don’t know what they are. [PocketToolX via Wired via Engadget]