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Kingston BlackBox Uber-Secure Flash Drive

Posted on Apr 15, 08 12:47 AM PDT

Kingston BlackBox Secure Flash Drive

Kingston has a new uber-secure flash drive that also happen to cost big bucks: $424 for 8GB. In fact, this high price is probably driven in part by a federal requirement that some sensitive data has to be stored on a device that has received the Federal Information Processing Standard (FIPS) 140-2 certification. And the last time I looked, there was not a whole lot of 8GB flash drives in that category… Of course, the cost of the encryption hardware might be important too, but a chip of that size can’t cost a whole lot to make…

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By Mat , 03/07/08 8:21 AM (CommentID #760662)


Ironkey also bricks the whole drive so you can't use it, if you forget your password. We've lost 2 this way.
Blackbox just formats.

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By IronKey is better , 01/07/08 1:50 PM (CommentID #757750)


IronKey is better!

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By jeremiah b , 05/05/08 8:38 AM (CommentID #664330)


thats a sweet one i like it. 8)

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