August 2nd, 2006
007 USB Lock Keeps Your Data Secure and Portable
By Alice Hill
RealTechNews.com
USB thumb drives are handy but they are also really easy to lose. If you carry around sensitive documents, it’s not a bad idea to check out the 007 USB locking flash drive from Duck Image.
Combining the digital security of encryption with the decidedly analogue security of a bike lock, the 007 keeps your data doubly safe. The combination lock not only keeps would-be data thieves from getting to the thumb drive, it also will physically lock the drive to an object, such as a desk, via the steel cable. If they somehow figure out that the code is your birthday, once they plug it into your computer they’ll need yet another password to access the data.
No pricing yet. Duck Image (Note: beware the ultra annoying flash-based website) via SciFi.com
We Say: Looks good. Just don’t set it to 000 or 007.
NASAdude says:
Instead of wasting money on a gimmicky “secure” USB drive with a huge cable bike lock attached to it, why not just use TrueCrypt (http://www.truecrypt.org; open source freeware) to protect your data?
It works on pretty much any storage device, using encryption trusted by spooks around the world.
It’s great for novice users. It’s simple to use, and provides outstanding protection.
For advanced users, you can set up a hidden/transparent nested encrytion volumne in the unused sectors of the parent encrypted volume. That gives you plausible deniability that any encypted data even exists on those sectors. When they start breaking fingers (or threatening contempt-of-court for refusing to give the password, whichever the case may be) you just give the password to the parent encrypted volume which is home to some semi-sensitive documents. It appears as if you have fully complied and given access to your secrets, but they’ll never be able to find or prove that a hidden child encrypted volume exists. Your secrets are safe, you’re not in jail, and most of your fingers are still intact. Hooray!
Note: I am not a lawyer, nor should any of this document be construed as free legal advice.
August 2nd, 2006 at 6:49 pm
Sergio Pereira says:
I agree with #1. I have been using TC for several months now and it has been great. It even has a quick wizard to create USB travel drives that you just need to plug, autorun, enter password, use. It also helps that it runs on Linux too.
August 3rd, 2006 at 4:33 am
Jim Frost says:
Those tumbler locks are worthless. I can usually open them with my eyes closed in a few seconds. It’s cute, but if you want security I agree with the other replies that the way to do it is to use encryption.
August 3rd, 2006 at 7:45 am
Lockergnome's Tech News Watch says:
007 USB Lock Keeps Your Data Secure And Portable
Alice Hill of RealTechNews writes: USB thumb drives are handy but they are also really easy to lose. If you carry around sensitive documents, it’s not a bad idea to check out the 007 USB locking flash drive from Duck Image….
August 4th, 2006 at 11:15 am
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August 6th, 2006 at 3:49 am
kumar says:
I think its better to lock usb drive and feel better from theft.
April 7th, 2007 at 2:10 am