Security Special: New Lexar USB Jumpdrive TouchGuard
By Susan Mernit 
posted December 4th 2004 12:33PM
posted December 4th 2004 12:33PM
If you agree with former Intel CEO Andy Grove that "Only the
paranoid survive," Lexar's new USB JumpDrive TouchGuard flash drive, which doubles as a biometric fingerprint scanner
that protects your info from everyone else, is probably the one for you. Comes with 256MB storage capacity and USB 2.0
for fast data transfers, but the best part is that the street price ($79) isn't that much worse than regular,
non-secure USB drives.
Can u somehow use it to protect stuff on a PC its connected to or can u only biometrically protect data on the actual flash drive?
are you kidding me, how badly from paranoid schizophrenia do you have to be suffering to purchase something like that, what kinda of information could the average user being carrying that he/she feels the need to biometrically protect it.
Well, let's see:
Financial data (quicken backup)
Customer information
Password list
It's not a question of why should you... The technology is there and affordable so why not?
It's true that I may be paranoid but that doesn't mean that they're not out to get me!
yes, one of the main things its ment to do is encrypt stuf on the PC that its connected to. And that stuf will stay encrypted untill u reinsert the flash drive and chose to unencrypt the data.