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Is the U3 Smart Drive Encryption Any Good?

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the is-the-value-added-truly-added-value dept.

Carlos asks: "I was searching encryption software for USB pen drives, and came across the U3 Smart Drive platform which offers portability and privacy through software and hardware. There are already several well-known hardware manufacturers offering U3 Smart Drives. Do they are really better than a plain USB drive plus encryption software such as TrueCrypt or it's just marketing hype?"

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  1. Re:U3 sucks infinitely by gweihir · · Score: 2, Interesting

    What's wrong with a simple dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sdX

    While personally I feel this is the way to go (I would use dd_rescue, but that does not matter), it seems the level of insight needed to understand and do this simple and clear operation is not available to the general public.

    It seems people do not want to do things that can be understood easily. They want to do things that look easy, i.e. click some button or run a programm that does a single, highly speciaalised operation and takes no parameters.

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