Victorinox Makes 1TB Swiss Army Knife

judgecorp writes "The Swiss Army knife has been available with storage for some time — now there is a 1 terabyte version. It comes with two bodies, so the storage can be swapped out into a flight-safe version with no knife or scissors. The company left the price off its release, but sources suggest it is $3000."

Comments

If They Confiscate Your Cupcake?

[Jeremiah Cornelius]

The TSA will surely snag your "flight safe" Victorinox!

They took a 3-inch plastic toy doll's rifle from a child - because it was a "replica firearm".

Someday, they will face the gates of Hell. Today? They are your middle-school hall-monitors, with an authorization from the American STASI.

Re:If They Confiscate Your Cupcake?

[dgatwood]

You haven't been paying attention. The TSA has no need to justify anything, citizen. They repeatedly commit dubiously legal searches and seizures, illegal detentions, random groping, and unlicensed irradiation of the flying public under the threat of invalidating your expensive plane ticket purchase (extortion) if you do not comply. They can't justify most of what they do. That never stopped them from doing anything before. Why start caring now?

Re:If They Confiscate Your Cupcake?

[The Grim Reefer]

I was just trying to make the point that you're not flying with some sort of "flight-safe" knife, you're probably able to detach the actual drive.

You're still flying with some part of a "weapon"/knife. That's grounds enough for the TSA, I'm sure.[/sarcasm]

I fly often and used to try to be understanding of the TSA. But in the last year, or so, they've become increasingly obnoxious. I've seen other passengers harassed because they choose a pat-down over being irradiated. Passengers treated like criminals because they had a tube of tooth paste in their luggage. I had a VGA card ruined because a idiot agent pulled it out of the antistatic bag and swiped it all over with a cloth while arguing with me the entire time. Then afterward told me I could have just checked it, which was exactly what I asked to do while she argued with me.

Re:Why?

[Anonymous Coward]

Easier to conceal, especially for international travel where an external disc drive is more likely to be searched/cloned/confiscated.

Re:Why?

[TheGratefulNet]

I was just thinking, most of my music fits on 1tb (mp3 and a lot of my .flac).

I currently serve music over nfs from a noisy back-room always-on server.

if this is cheaper (soon it will be) then I'll fit all mu music on a noiseless flash drive. I can then play that on some local noiseless (fanless, etc) playback system.

THAT is the draw for me, of large flash drives. thumbdrives are readable by even $30 dvd players (philips) and so your whole music collection can be on a stick that mounts on a consumer level appliance.

that's neat, isn't it?

Re:3k???

[Imagix]

Uh... read the specs again... that's 1 *TB*, not 1 *GB*.

Just what the world needs

[Bohnanza]

A Swiss Army knife with no knife.

Re:Why?

[c0d3g33k]

Everyone need this kind of storage. A small external HDD is readily identifiable as such, so will be subject to arbitrary search and confiscation at the whim of the border guards. Better to store your data within ordinary items such as a hairbrush, keyfob or the flight-safe Swiss Army Knife. Preferably encrypted and redundantly distributed among as many innocuous items as you can stand to carry. When you have reached your destination, use your most secure device to update and change your security codes so the folks who confiscated your external HDD can't easily get to your personal information.

Itb in a knife

[Master Moose]

That's cutting edge!

Re:3k???

[dgatwood]

Feel the city breakin' and everybody shakin'...

Oh, wait, I thought you said 1024 Bee Gees. My bad.

Re:Why?

[Sebastopol]

Yes, because they certainly do NOT confiscate knives on planes. ;-)

Re:Why?

[Anonymous Coward]

The problem with easy-to-conceal storage devices is if someone happens to find them anyway. Then, based on the fact that you were trying to conceal it, you get detained (or worse), your data confiscated, and your very own permanent Homeland Security file. The more effort you make to conceal it, the more suspicion you receive if it fails. You'd almost be better off carrying an unencrypted external USB hard drive labeled in Sharpie "porn and other private stuff".

Re:Why?

[Radtastic]

If you want to make sure the TSA leaves your digital goodies alone, label it 'Viruses for AV Testing". Bonus: Carry a disclaimer form releasing you of damages if they do plug it in.

Re:Why?

[bemymonkey]

If you're just looking for silent replacements for hard drives, just get a few SSDs. 1TB should barely come to $1500 (thinking two Intel 320 series 600GB drives), and it'll be MUCH MUCH MUCH faster than a dinky oversized thumb drive.