Fwd: Encrypting laptops ?

[Andre Kesteloot]

On 4/1/2011 2:59 PM, Richard Barth wrote:
> At 01:50 PM 4/1/2011, Andre Kesteloot wrote:
>
>> An easier solution is to put your data on a "Ironkey" USB thumb drive.
>
> I have heard of the "Ironkey" thumb drive.  I have also read reports 
> that many of the "encrypted"
> thumb drives on the market were designed so that the same keyword, fed 
> directly to the drive, will
> open it.  Seems the "encryption" process involved taking whatever 
> password you entered into the
> computer software and converting it to that universal drive key, so 
> one was like another; they all responded to the same keyword fed 
> directly to the drive.


Richard,
Ironkey features hardware encryption in and out.
If you use a wrong password 10 times, it erases itself.

https://www.ironkey.com/products

Let's talk about that tomorrow at Tacos.

73
André