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Nothing screams "STEAL ME" more than a portable hard drive with numeric keypad with an "unlock" button.

Hey guys, next time try hiding the buttons under a sliding or hinged panel... make it look like just another external drive, rather than the place where the keep the recipe for Coca Cola.

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You have a briefcase for your flashlight?]]>Aug 20th 2009 7:23PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/08/20/apricorn-launches-aegis-padlock-secure-portable-usb-drive-for-pa/http://www.engadget.com/2009/08/20/apricorn-launches-aegis-padlock-secure-portable-usb-drive-for-pa/Aug 20th 2009 1:46PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/08/20/apricorn-launches-aegis-padlock-secure-portable-usb-drive-for-pa/http://www.engadget.com/2009/08/20/apricorn-launches-aegis-padlock-secure-portable-usb-drive-for-pa/Aug 20th 2009 2:06PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/08/20/apricorn-launches-aegis-padlock-secure-portable-usb-drive-for-pa/http://www.engadget.com/2009/08/20/apricorn-launches-aegis-padlock-secure-portable-usb-drive-for-pa/
(1) You pull the drive out of your laptop bag and put it in one of those grey bins.
(2) TSA xrays it.
(3) You go to your gate and wait 3 hours for your delayed flight.

Not so hard. You know other things with numeric keypads go through the xray all day long... we call them "phones".

I guess you don't get out much.]]>Aug 20th 2009 3:32PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/08/20/apricorn-launches-aegis-padlock-secure-portable-usb-drive-for-pa/http://www.engadget.com/2009/08/20/apricorn-launches-aegis-padlock-secure-portable-usb-drive-for-pa/
it is free

does the same thing sans the silly keypad

end of story.

]]>Aug 20th 2009 2:26PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/08/20/apricorn-launches-aegis-padlock-secure-portable-usb-drive-for-pa/http://www.engadget.com/2009/08/20/apricorn-launches-aegis-padlock-secure-portable-usb-drive-for-pa/Disadvantage of course is that this probably has some master key they share with US federal groups.
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Wwhat, i get what you are saying, but most of these drives require you to run mount software anyway to key the data, usually they aren't smart enough to have a direct interface with the AES chip (simliar to the WD encrypted drives that came out a few years ago...chip encryption, software interface). TrueCrypt is portable anyway, and when dealing with sensitive data you always should have have administrative rights as well (for a number of reasons)]]>Aug 20th 2009 5:02PM