[SWLUG] Linux friendly USB hard disks (i.e. ones that can be ext4 formatted)

Chris King swlug at csking.co.uk
Tue Jul 20 08:23:56 UTC 2010


On Tue, July 20, 2010 08:36, Steve Hill wrote:
> On Mon, 19 Jul 2010, Chris King wrote:
>
>> The same also goes for most hardware-encrypted USB sticks - about the
>> only exception I've found to this is the uber-expensive IronKey, but even
>> then the unlocking/locking procedures are command-line rather than GUI.
>
> Wasn't the IronKey one of the ones found to be utterly insecure to the
> point of uselessness?

You're thinking of the Sandisk drives - the IronKey is a totally different
design and didn't contain that particular software flaw.

Chris

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