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Biometric drives are becoming more and more common as the need to secure the data on the drives from theft and loss becomes more pressing. Typically we all tend to think that biometric flash drives are very secure and a god option for sensitive data. However, it seems that biometric flash drives aren’t nearly as secure as we might have thought, even when they use AES encryption. While I am not sure of the brands of flash drives this guy hacked, he was able to access all encrypted data on both sticks by fooling the security program into seeing each fingerprint scanned as valid. On the drive with encryption he was even able to get access to the encrypted partitions without loosing the data. Moral of the story, your data isn’t as safe as you would like to think. About Everything USB
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Filed under Hardware
Thumbdrive Reviews
- Corsair Flash Voyager GT 128GB Flash Drive (2009)
- SanDisk Ultra Backup 32GB Flash Drive (2009)
- OCZ Slate USB SSD ExpressCard (2009)
- Kanguru e-Flash eSATA+USB 16GB Flash Drive (2009)
- Kingston Data Traveler 150 32GB USB Flash Drive (2008)
- Corsair Flash Voyager Mini Flash Drive (2008)
- Ironkey 1GB Secure Flash Drive (2007)
- OCZ ATV Turbo 4GB Flash Drive (2007)
- Corsair Flash Padlock 2GB Flash Drive (2007)
- SanDisk Cruzer Contour 4GB Flash Drive (2007)
- Corsair Flash Survivor GT 8GB Flash Drive (2007)
- Corsair Flash Voyager GT 4GB Flash Drive (2007)
- Kingston DataTraveler Secure 4GB Flash Drive (2006)
- SanDisk Cruzer Titanium 2GB Flash Drive (2006)
- Lexar JumpDrive Mercury 1GB Flash Drive (2006)







