http://www.engadget.com/2006/03/16/kingston-data-traveler-elite-privacy-edition-co-self-destructing/ Engadget Comments for http://www.engadget.com/media/feedlogo.gif http://www.engadget.com en-us Copyright 2008 Weblogs, Inc. The contents of this feed are available for non-commercial use only. Blogsmith http://www.blogsmith.com/http://www.engadget.com/2006/03/16/kingston-data-traveler-elite-privacy-edition-co-self-destructing/http://www.engadget.com/2006/03/16/kingston-data-traveler-elite-privacy-edition-co-self-destructing/]]>Mar 16th 2006 6:36PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/03/16/kingston-data-traveler-elite-privacy-edition-co-self-destructing/http://www.engadget.com/2006/03/16/kingston-data-traveler-elite-privacy-edition-co-self-destructing/Dec 12th 2007 2:50AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/03/16/kingston-data-traveler-elite-privacy-edition-co-self-destructing/http://www.engadget.com/2006/03/16/kingston-data-traveler-elite-privacy-edition-co-self-destructing/Mar 16th 2006 7:06PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/03/16/kingston-data-traveler-elite-privacy-edition-co-self-destructing/http://www.engadget.com/2006/03/16/kingston-data-traveler-elite-privacy-edition-co-self-destructing/Mar 16th 2006 7:07PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/03/16/kingston-data-traveler-elite-privacy-edition-co-self-destructing/http://www.engadget.com/2006/03/16/kingston-data-traveler-elite-privacy-edition-co-self-destructing/Mar 16th 2006 8:19PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/03/16/kingston-data-traveler-elite-privacy-edition-co-self-destructing/http://www.engadget.com/2006/03/16/kingston-data-traveler-elite-privacy-edition-co-self-destructing/Mar 16th 2006 8:28PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/03/16/kingston-data-traveler-elite-privacy-edition-co-self-destructing/http://www.engadget.com/2006/03/16/kingston-data-traveler-elite-privacy-edition-co-self-destructing/of course, you could always buy one and stick a tiny piece of dynamite in it.......]]>Mar 16th 2006 10:29PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/03/16/kingston-data-traveler-elite-privacy-edition-co-self-destructing/http://www.engadget.com/2006/03/16/kingston-data-traveler-elite-privacy-edition-co-self-destructing/Mar 16th 2006 10:49PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/03/16/kingston-data-traveler-elite-privacy-edition-co-self-destructing/http://www.engadget.com/2006/03/16/kingston-data-traveler-elite-privacy-edition-co-self-destructing/
Generally, self-destructing items are a bad security idea. They introduce an unneccessary Denial of Service vulnerability unless implemented very carefully.]]>Mar 16th 2006 11:49PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/03/16/kingston-data-traveler-elite-privacy-edition-co-self-destructing/http://www.engadget.com/2006/03/16/kingston-data-traveler-elite-privacy-edition-co-self-destructing/Mar 16th 2006 11:51PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/03/16/kingston-data-traveler-elite-privacy-edition-co-self-destructing/http://www.engadget.com/2006/03/16/kingston-data-traveler-elite-privacy-edition-co-self-destructing/21...
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Fire in the hole!!!]]>Mar 17th 2006 1:34AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/03/16/kingston-data-traveler-elite-privacy-edition-co-self-destructing/http://www.engadget.com/2006/03/16/kingston-data-traveler-elite-privacy-edition-co-self-destructing/
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THUS, the kind of info that should probably be protected by these sorts of devices, will never make it into their hands. You'd be amazed some of the info that's been relayed to me, and could easily have been shared with the public, and should've been protected with something like this.]]>Mar 17th 2006 3:19AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/03/16/kingston-data-traveler-elite-privacy-edition-co-self-destructing/http://www.engadget.com/2006/03/16/kingston-data-traveler-elite-privacy-edition-co-self-destructing/only slight prob is it needs you running as admin to mount an encrypted volume.]]>Mar 17th 2006 5:34AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/03/16/kingston-data-traveler-elite-privacy-edition-co-self-destructing/http://www.engadget.com/2006/03/16/kingston-data-traveler-elite-privacy-edition-co-self-destructing/Mar 17th 2006 5:36AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/03/16/kingston-data-traveler-elite-privacy-edition-co-self-destructing/http://www.engadget.com/2006/03/16/kingston-data-traveler-elite-privacy-edition-co-self-destructing/
1. What ever software they are using to count how many tries you take could be bypassed by using a rootkit or just using a different os.

2. If they have some hardware designed to do the checking, then like hapoo said, a theif could bypass it using other hardware.


If data is really that secure, this is definately the wrong way to store it.]]>Mar 17th 2006 6:10AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/03/16/kingston-data-traveler-elite-privacy-edition-co-self-destructing/http://www.engadget.com/2006/03/16/kingston-data-traveler-elite-privacy-edition-co-self-destructing/Mar 17th 2006 8:53AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/03/16/kingston-data-traveler-elite-privacy-edition-co-self-destructing/http://www.engadget.com/2006/03/16/kingston-data-traveler-elite-privacy-edition-co-self-destructing/Mar 17th 2006 9:50AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/03/16/kingston-data-traveler-elite-privacy-edition-co-self-destructing/http://www.engadget.com/2006/03/16/kingston-data-traveler-elite-privacy-edition-co-self-destructing/Mar 17th 2006 10:12AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/03/16/kingston-data-traveler-elite-privacy-edition-co-self-destructing/http://www.engadget.com/2006/03/16/kingston-data-traveler-elite-privacy-edition-co-self-destructing/
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Just use a good encryption program. I wish you good luck with brute-forcing AES: http://www.dekart.com/howto/howto_disk_encryption/howto_recover_lost_password/]]>Mar 17th 2006 11:42AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/03/16/kingston-data-traveler-elite-privacy-edition-co-self-destructing/http://www.engadget.com/2006/03/16/kingston-data-traveler-elite-privacy-edition-co-self-destructing/Mar 17th 2006 1:01PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/03/16/kingston-data-traveler-elite-privacy-edition-co-self-destructing/http://www.engadget.com/2006/03/16/kingston-data-traveler-elite-privacy-edition-co-self-destructing/Mar 18th 2006 9:25AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/03/16/kingston-data-traveler-elite-privacy-edition-co-self-destructing/http://www.engadget.com/2006/03/16/kingston-data-traveler-elite-privacy-edition-co-self-destructing/
The whole point of keys is to transport data, not store it for ever. It just reduces the chance of it getting into the wrong hands. If it gets wiped, go back to the secure source (usually in a secure building).

Just because 1% of scenarios could get around it, doesn't mean we should give up on protecting the remaining 99%.]]>Feb 24th 2007 7:21AM