The security industry strikes again. Sell business users supposedly encrypted (and therefore super-secure) USB sticks and then assume that nobody will ever work out that the security is about as watertight as a paper teapot.
Three companies admit they suffered the same egregiously stupid encryption flaw in some of their expensive ‘secure’ USB sticks at the same time. And these turned out to have been certified using an important-sounding US government security standard, FIPS-140 Level 2. How three vendors screwed up USB stick security – War on Error – Blogs – Technology Blog and Community from IT Experts – Techworld.com
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