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Encrypted USB Key With TOR, Firefox
An anonymous reader writes "Gizmodo has a writeup on the new IronKey — a self-destructing, hardware-encrypted and -authenticated USB flash drive with on-board secure Firefox, high-speed TOR network, password manager, and online encrypted backup. Here is the demo page. $79 for a 1GB, $149 for 4GB." Ironkey works on XP and Vista only. Let's hope its self-destruct feature works better than Secustick's.
The usual answer of "majority platform / volume sales" just doesn't cut it in the encryption/security area, because volume sales are always to the clueless moronic masses (not an indictment ... they simply don't know better). In contrast, this kind of privacy-conscious gadget is a million miles outside of the volume/masses catchment area.
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... but they can't ALL be morons.
In fact, it's directly in our catchment area here in Slashdot.
Which makes the question even more of a "Doh!"
Why is this kind of product not targetted directly at the kind of user who is aware of the issues at stake? In other words, why doesn't the product marketting target Linux/BSD in a big way and offer Linux/BSD support very prominently?
I guess it's easy enough to answer "Because Marketting is populated by morons"