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PIN Protected USB Flash Devices, A Grand Idea


It is amazing that it’s taken this long for this simple yet useful security to get put to use for the masses, in the form of a PIN Protected USB Flash Device. John E. Dunn of Techworld writes:

Memory company Corsair has come up with an ingeniously simple way to secure USB flash drives without having to remember a password – build a PIN-based ‘padlock’ into the drive itself.

Read the article here.

I’ll probably pick up one of these if I see them on the shelf somewhere. I can see lots of use, particularly for business purposes, for this type of USB Flash device. I never really carry around sensitive data on a flash card, but sometimes I do transport information that pertains to website ftp access and such. Even a password file gets transported every now and then.

A small security measure to make a device more inaccessible to those that like to dig into data for kicks sound just fine to me.


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