Freecom's Hard Drive Secure for the businessman paranoid

It might be a butchering of English grammar -- the adjective typically goes before the noun -- but the Hard Drive Secure does have a pretty unique selling point to offer. The USB 2.0 drive's security is handled by AES-encrypted RFID keycards -- swiping the card once unlocks the drive, swiping it again locks it back up. Using similar technology to London's Oyster Card, we trust Freecom has made sure their new device is not susceptible to the Mifare hack that exposed vulnerabilities in previous RFID systems. Though not yet available to purchase, the aluminum-enclosed HDD will retail for between $119 for the 500GB version and $409 for the 2TB behemoth, while in Euroland prices will range between €99 and €349.

[Via Bit Tech]

[1 Posted Jul 20th 2009 8:26AM]

Or you just take the drive out and hook it up to a PC?

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[(Unverified) Posted Jul 20th 2009 10:24AM]

Or,

One could use the drive and encrypt it themselves with TrueCrypt. (Free)

[jgpuff Posted Jul 20th 2009 8:37AM]

From the read link:

"The Freecom Hard Drive Secure is pre-formatted (FAT-32),
ready for use on both Windows and Mac computers."

I'm no expert, but isn't FAT32 really, really stupid on a 2TB drive?

Also, there's no mention of the data actually being encrypted, so as far as I can see, matt's suggestion of just removing the drive would work fine.

[LondonConsultant Posted Jul 20th 2009 8:39AM]

Oysters. Yum.

[(Unverified) Posted Jul 20th 2009 9:17AM]

And what happens when the user loses the card, as they inevitably will? This is a product looking for a problem, when the solution can cause more problems than any potential problem could.

[Khav Posted Jul 20th 2009 9:37AM]

If they can't just take the drive out and put it in a PC, they can ask the spy/hacker they're trying to keep out of their data. That guy will probably have cracked it by that point.

[(Unverified) Posted Jul 20th 2009 9:44AM]

"It might be a butchering of English grammar -- the adjective typically goes before the noun -- but the Hard Drive Secure does have a pretty unique selling point to offer."

So shouldn't it also be:
Nano iPod
Classic iPod
Touch iPod
16GB iPhone
32GB iPhone
3G iPhone
3GS iPhone
Pro Macbook

And so on.

[jgpuff Posted Jul 20th 2009 9:52AM]

Yes. Most of those names are wrong too, though 'Nano, 'GS', 'G', 'Touch' and arguably 'Pro' aren't adjectives.

[(Unverified) Posted Jul 20th 2009 10:36AM]

Not really. Nano and Classic etc. are all model names and not adjectives. That would be like saying "Should it be a Mustang Ford or a Cobalt Chevy?" If Freecom's line of Hard Drives are names Hard Drive and the model is Secure, then it is correct. If they are just playing with word order, then technically, it is incorrect.

[(Unverified) Posted Jul 20th 2009 11:40AM]

If that word order makes them incorrect, then the military is *massively* incorrect.

[(Unverified) Posted Jul 20th 2009 12:17PM]

Nano means small in Spanish...

[jgpuff Posted Jul 20th 2009 12:32PM]

The military get special dispensation because they have to form acronyms. Their potency depends on them having the best ones in the world.

[(Unverified) Posted Jul 20th 2009 10:51AM]

Why didn't anyone think about a external hard drive that has a backup in its own uit.?
Right now people are worried that they could lose everything in their external harddrive if it breaks. No company has yet to solve this problem.
How about putting a backup drive that back up the external drive (back it up twice to two different uexternal drive, but make the second drive retrievable by hands if the whole unit breaks down.

[kumquat Posted Jul 20th 2009 11:39AM]

http://www.wdc.com/en/products/products.asp?driveid=466

[Gordon Posted Jul 20th 2009 11:50AM]

It took me a split second to get the headline. You're a clever lad, Vladislav.