USB WriteBlocker Forensic Tool Makes USB Drives Read Only

WiebeTech today fixes one of the few glaring holes in USB storage devices. The USB WriteBlocker is a flash drive based USB pass-through connector which allows Mass Storage USB devices to be read and prevents them from being written to. Simply plug any USB drive into the WriteBlocker and plug the WriteBlocker into a PC or Mac. They also make a software utility (PC Only) for use in conjunction with the WriteBlocker that displays information about the connected drive. This will be of great use to forensic investigators trying to preserve the contents of a hard drive during investigations. Too often, operating systems leave traces of their connections on slave drives which can compromise the legal chain of evidence or alert a suspect they are under scrutiny. The devices claims to be able to process mono-directional data transfer at up to 10MB/s. This is not as fast USB 2.0 but internal processing of the data imposes its own limits.