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Ironkey

Fancy one of these but not sure..

overpriced overkill or one stop peace of mind for lazy people like me?

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  • superscaper
    superscaper Posts: 13,369 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture 10,000 Posts Combo Breaker
    If you really need encryption then just use a normal flash drive with Truecrypt (as long as you use it on computers with administrator priviledges and you're not going to get any better as far as encryption goes).
    "She is quite the oddball. Did you notice how she didn't even get excited when she saw this original ZX-81?"
    Moss
  • It's the way it manages internet use I like as I'm going to be using public WiFi and thought it would be good security. plus I carry a lot of identity info with me which I wouldn't want exposed
  • superscaper
    superscaper Posts: 13,369 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture 10,000 Posts Combo Breaker
    It's the way it manages internet use I like as I'm going to be using public WiFi and thought it would be good security. plus I carry a lot of identity info with me which I wouldn't want exposed

    Even Ironkey themselves simply adapted opensource software but use their own proprietary nodes. Pretty much everything you want then seems to be available open source which is much much more trustworthy than anything proprietary. Security is one area where open source really comes into its own.
    "She is quite the oddball. Did you notice how she didn't even get excited when she saw this original ZX-81?"
    Moss
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