Hardware and Software Protection via USB

We love anything that's supposed to make using a PC safer for the average person, but generally most consumer-oriented, uh, solutions (we hate saying that word, but you know what we're getting at) usually fall way short of their potential, and worse, expectations. The SecuriKey Computer Protection System works on both Mac and PC, and secures your system via password authentication and a USB key-device. What this means is that you can't get in your system unless you know the password and have the USB device, which is a good thing, since if someone gets physical access to your machine it's usually pretty easy to crack the log-in authentication if they know what they're doing. The downside: lose the key and your screwed, which is probably going to happen sooner or later.Deepquest gives it pretty high marks on the Mac OS X side in their review, but we won't be using this puppy to secure our multinational trade secrets (we've got a couple!) anytime soon.

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