It seems like the benefits are having the device lock/wipe itself after a set amount of attempts in case of a brute force attack and not having to run software to decrypt the drive on the device you plug it into.

I included a picture of the IronKey Keypad 200 but that’s just because it’s the first result that came up when I was looking for an example. There seem to be a few other manufacturers and models out there and they probably have different features.

I am curious what do you think of them? Do you think they are useful? Do you find it more a novelty?

It was an ExplainingComputers video titled Very Useful Small Computing Things that made me think of them.

  • csm10495@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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    9 months ago

    I had one of the SanDisk flash drives that had some launcher thing on it and I had a password for some reason on it.

    In high school, a classmate tried to guess it, 3 times and I lost everything on it forever, since it stupidly locked forever after 3 tries.

    I had software projects from back then that I can never get back… including a web browser. I could have had the next Firefox…

    If you’re out there, Liz: I’ll never forgive that.