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Protect Any Hard Drive With This Drive Enclosure

dvice.com — "Maybe you're a spy or you've got schematics for the next hot gadget locked away on your hard drive, but either way you're going to want to lock your files down. "

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  • k00pa, on 05/15/2008, -1/+7Looks nice, but I think I don't spend those moneys and use whole partition crypting.
  • rlray216, on 05/15/2008, -3/+1Looks handy.
  • Psi57, on 05/15/2008, -2/+7How about a drive enclosure with an extremely powerful oscillating electromagnet that can be turned on with a button or two...
    • yunus, on 05/15/2008, -0/+4or the wrong code 3 times in a short time period. Still, if someone steals your drive they would be able to physically crack that enclosure after a while.
    • LeRenard, on 05/15/2008, -0/+1Call them Damocles Drives! "Your data is safe when your hangin' with Damocles™"
    • KibibyteBrain, on 05/15/2008, -0/+1You'd need to engineer it carefully. If the magnetic field it generated was too uniform, it would be possible to still use a more sophisticated drive head to extract the delta information at each bit by subtracting the uniform offset. Even if the offset is not uniform this is possible. And yes, people have done this before. Its still an effective method, but don't think that just because magnets or erasures appeared to wipe your data that there is not still magnetic information there.
  • Jo9100, on 05/15/2008, -0/+46Protect any data whatsoever, be it a byte or a hard drive:
    http://www.truecrypt.org/
    • Bmarofsky, on 05/15/2008, -0/+16don't forget-- it's free too.
    • theholyraptor, on 05/15/2008, -0/+14True Crypt; Not just for pedophiles!
    • CaptainChad, on 05/16/2008, -1/+1Doesn't protect it from a good magnet or magnetic field.
  • sourceholder, on 05/15/2008, -1/+32This is not "protection". The attacker can simply remove the drive from the encolsure and wholla, files are readable on any PC.
    For real security, use encryption!
    • grumpyrain, on 05/15/2008, -1/+15*voila
    • willynilly, on 05/15/2008, -0/+18That's why you sprinkle the drive with virulent spores before you seal up the enclosure.
    • apmtt, on 05/15/2008, -0/+7And after getting all your data, said attacker will laugh at how stupid and pointless the enclosure is and how dumb you were to spend so much money on it.
  • holysin, on 05/15/2008, -0/+32Am I missing something or is the code purely an enclosure feature? (In other words, isn't this easily beatable by a thief with a screw driver and the use of another 2.5 sata enclosure?)
  • Sasquatcho, on 05/15/2008, -11/+8for "real" security, buy a gun. screw encryption. bullets are scarier than any encryption every will be.
    • yunus, on 05/15/2008, -0/+4Lets pretend I am securing a hard drive from "evil doers". I am attacked and die in the firefight. Truecrypt still stops them from getting my data. Bullets stop being effective when I die.
      • mediaphile, on 05/15/2008, -0/+1This enclosure stops being effective when you buy it, so a gun is still a better idea than the enclosure.

        Truecrypt is definitely a better solution than the enclosure, though.
      • elliott9, on 05/15/2008, -0/+1True True, I better save up for some C4 and rig my hard drive to explode if my heart stops.
  • Avian00, on 05/15/2008, -0/+11I guess I was assuming this enclosure encrypted your drive. But after reading the other comments here, I realized that the article makes no mention of encryption. Does anybody have the official word on this? Does it encrypt? Or is this just lame?
    • CA55IDY, on 05/15/2008, -0/+1Just lame
    • Tenoq, on 05/15/2008, -0/+1Even if it does encrypt, you've got another problem - what happens when the caddy fails? It's quite common, and then you're stuck with some proprietary encryption of all your data that you can't undo without another one of these caddies - if that can even do it.
  • huntr2, on 05/15/2008, -0/+9This is inaccurate because it doesn't protect any hard drive like the title suggests, it's specifically a 2.5" Serial ATA drive which you have to buy along with this $100 device. Secondly this device offers no real protection because someone could easily remove the drive and then read the data off it because it doesn't appear to be doing any sort of encryption. It might protect it from a nosey housemate but if it is stoeln then your pretty much screwed.
    • Zippo, on 05/15/2008, -0/+2Oh good, someone else noticed the BLARING flaw to this device. If you're going to sell a device that locks your data, but doesn't actually encrypt, at least make the hard drive built-in and difficult to remove.
    • Murdats, on 05/15/2008, -0/+2You're right, I was wondering how it worked for 3.5 and 2.5" drives, only to find out its not for any hard drive.
  • Fraize, on 05/15/2008, -0/+7The drive works by masking the partition-table. When you type in the passkey, it virtually loads it and then the drive becomes accessible. If someone were to steal the drive, they might be able to read the bits off the drive directly, but it wouldn't automatically mount the drive.

    It's like locks on your front door. A real criminal will get in no matter how tough your lock is. It keeps honest people honest.
  • SoundJudgment, on 05/15/2008, -0/+1For even better security... improve your own memory instead.
  • Shadowgamers, on 05/15/2008, -0/+7So it's an external hard-drive caddy with an LCD screen?
    • luckyguy2000, on 05/15/2008, -0/+1they should name it that way without any mentioning of security or protection and noone would be bitching around.
  • Sawta, on 05/15/2008, -0/+7Only six digits? It doesn't even look like it includes letters. Why not just encrypt your stuff on an external HDD and use a 20+ digit password instead?
    • CA55IDY, on 05/15/2008, -0/+2Or just use Skydrive or something to keep data safe by uploading it to the web, external HDs are old news.
      • Moduliz0r, on 05/15/2008, -0/+1SkyDrive is cool, but I don't think I entirely trust it.
        Maybe I should test it by putting some mega-pirate material into a private folder, and waiting to see how long it takes to receive a lawsuit.
  • CLYF, on 05/15/2008, -0/+1I'm going to hide my pr0n!
  • groumpf, on 05/15/2008, -0/+0I guess it's still possible to create a TrueCrypt drive on the external HD you fit into that stupid enclosure... But 100$ to pseudo-protect something that's already well protected does sound a bit too expensive.
  • thebloodvayne, on 05/15/2008, -0/+0Useless and impractical. Your best bet is an encryption program and creating regular backups.
  • CopyNinja, on 05/15/2008, -0/+1Get an Iron Key.
  • endorphin, on 05/15/2008, -0/+1Or you guys can get the CipherShield Hard Drive from Buslink for a cheaper price and 1 year warranty. NIST certified Triple DES hardware encryption algorithm.
    http://www.buslinkbuy.com/store-cat.asp?categoryID ...
  • tito184, on 05/15/2008, -0/+2Who cares about the device. The girl with the black hair in the videos on the left hand side is smoking hot!
  • ftw420, on 05/16/2008, -0/+0This is a cool gadget. They need to make one for desktops too
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