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
Kids Guard USB stick is guaranteed to frustrate, encourage circumvention
The concept here is far from new, but that doesn’t mean that the latest iteration isn’t way more frustrating. For kids just looking to “discover themselves” somewhere on the world wide web, the Kids Online Guard USB Stick is a nightmare of the worst kind. Designed to keep your offspring away from files, websites and folders that you deem inappropriate, it seems to work by triggering limits when plugged in, and when unplugged, the whole PC likely locks everyone out. Of course, we’re guessing that this is just the thing to train your kid to become the planet’s next great circumventer / hacker, so if viewing this as a “training tool” makes you sleep easier, you can get one headed your way for $21.69.
[Thanks, Frank]
Filed under: Peripherals, Internet
Kids Guard USB stick is guaranteed to frustrate, encourage circumvention originally appeared on Engadget on Mon, 26 Oct 2009 15:19:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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Posted: October 26th, 2009
at 4:19pm by Darren Murph
Topics: GuardUsbStick, Security, USB, USB drive, USB flash drive, UsbDrive, UsbFlashDrive, UsbStick, guard, guard usb stick, kid, kids, usb stick
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]
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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
Kingston’s MobileLiteG2 card reader makes your thumb look huge
There’s diminutive, and then there’s Kingston’s MobileLiteG2 card reader. The second-generation of this here reader supports a wide variety of formats (SD, SDHC, microSD, microSDHC, Memory Stick PRO Duo, Memory Stick PRO-HG Duo and Memory Stick Micro), and it also boasts retractable covers on each side to protect the USB connector and the memory card. At just 2.45- x 1.16- x 0.646-inches in size, there’s an 87.425 percent chance that you’ll lose this before the MobileLiteG3 comes out, but honestly, that’s probably a-okay with Kingston. Those looking to downsize in a big way can order this bugger up for $11 (for the reader itself), $28.50 (bundled with a 4GB SDHC card) or $46 (bundled with an 8GB SDHC card).
[Via OhGizmo]
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Kingston’s MobileLiteG2 card reader makes your thumb look huge originally appeared on Engadget on Thu, 08 Oct 2009 22:42:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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Posted: October 8th, 2009
at 11:42pm by Darren Murph
Topics: Card Reader, CardReader, Flash Memory, FlashMemory, Kingston, MobileliteG2, Multi-cardReader, USB, USB drive, UsbDrive, UsbReader, adapter, flash, mobilelite, mobilelite g2, multi-card reader, usb reader
WD unveils new My Books with e-ink, while My Passport shrinks even further
Good news for hardcore portable storage buffs: looks like Western Digital is taking a hint from Verbatim and putting an e-ink display on its My Book Elite and My Book Studio portable hard drives, offering the device’s label and free space up-front, perfect for those of us juggling multiple portable storage devices. In addition, both offer WD SmartWare, 256-bit hardware-based encryption, and are available in capacities ranging from 500GB to 2TB. My Book Studio (formatted for Mac and sportin’ a FireWire 800 interface) ranges from $149.99 to $299.99 depending on size, while My Book Elite (with a USB 2.0 interface and NTFS formatting) will run you anywhere from $169.99 to $279.99.
If what you’re looking for however, is the company’s “smallest drive to date,” check out My Passport Elite. Featuring a USB dock, illuminated capacity gauge, a secure “drive lock” indicator, and that 256-bit hardware-based encryption, this bad boy is sports up to 640GB storage (which will run you $169.99). This one is available in one of three “metallic” colors — Metallic Red, Metallic Blue, or Charcoal Metallic. Sadly, the company hasn’t yet teamed up with MusicSkins for a Metallica skin — but our fingers are crossed.
Read – My Book Studio
Read – My Book Elite
Read – My Passport Elite
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WD unveils new My Books with e-ink, while My Passport shrinks even further originally appeared on Engadget on Tue, 06 Oct 2009 10:23:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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Posted: October 6th, 2009
at 11:23am by Joseph L. Flatley
Topics: Firewire800, My Book, My Passport, My Passport Elite, My book elite, My book studio, MyBook, MyBookElite, MyBookStudio, MyPassport, MyPassportElite, PortableHardDrive, PortableStorage, USB drive, Usb2.0, UsbDrive, Western Digital, WesternDigital, firewire 800, portable hard drive, portable storage, usb 2.0
