LG's USB Flash Drives with Homing Beacon

November 16th, 2005

No longer you need to panic in an even of a stolen thumbdrive. If you've a LG trackable flash drive, sooner or later you'll get an email informing your precious data whereabouts. And that's all thanks to the embedded Inspice Trace - the privacy-safe tracking software.

During initial registration, you are supposed to file with Inspice Trace your drive serial number, model and your email address. Then if someone else tries to access the drive's data, the embedded program will send out a homing beacon (IP address, host name, etc), helping you to trace the data. For all these to work, we bet the bad guys need to decrypt your data using a Internet-enabled Windows. We weren't so sure if the program would work on a Mac.

Recovering the drive might be futile, but there's an invaluable remote deletion function that conforms to US DoD 5220.22M to prevent unauthorized access. Though, this is only available to 'Enterprise' edition users.

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