Not even close my friend. I've been using one for >18 months and I'll just hit the high points. First there are 2 chips in the Ironkey. The first is a hardware based encryption chip and the second is the actual flash drive. The data on the drive is always encrypted. Also the first won't even mount the second without the proper password (mine is 17 nums, chars, and letters long). You have 10 tries to guess that or the drive destroys all the data. In addition the epoxy they seal them with insures that any attempt to get to the actual flash chips a) damages them heavily and b) also triggers the self-destruct. The second biggie is the on-board browser and identity manager. This gives you the ability to securely surf the web from any computer (I even use mine on my computer whenever I am doing anything financial) and if you are feeling really paranoid you can toggle tor with one click and/or configure Privoxy. The identity manger also allows you to log into sensitive sites without worrying about keystroke loggers. If you really want to see how hardcore this drive is I would suggest you visit their website. To paraphrase an OpenBSD motto: Ironkey the flash drive for the practical paranoid!
WTF? Can we please get a coherent statement. Now to dignify your ramblings with a response. Fair? I don't want fair. There is only one thing I want or expect from my government, and that is to know that when I am going about my business I dont have to worry about some idiot who has decided that America is the source of all his problems gassing/poisoning/bmbing me. If this means that we have to go out and bust some skulls I have no problem with that.( as Mel Brooks said "Its good to be the king" )
Let's not be naive -- under the circumstances (with such a gross overmatch with the US vs any other military force in the world) I think any person that truely thinks about the moral implications has to realise that we (the American population) are legitimate military targets.
I seem to recall a photo when the Oklahoma bombing took place of a fireman carrying out the body of a (dead?) baby. If $your_favorite_terrorist_group had commited that bombing would you like to tell the parents of that child that he was a legitimate military target? Or maybe if you are (un)lucky you can use that as your rational while you sit on the ground looking at you legs laying across the street.
Personally, I don't want America to become a country that needs to be run under police-state/siege-mentality rules just to keep it's citizens from being bombed/poisoned/plagued.
I agree, and now ther is one less regime to provide bombs/poison/plagues to $your_favorite_terrorist_group.
and all the iraqui children that will dye in the future victims of cancer due the depleted uranium used in the american ammonitions
Why is it that people cannot seem to understand that depleted uranium is NOT RADIOACTIVE. This must be the third or fourth time I have run across this same specious argument. I truly wish that people could learn to think rationally about nuclear energy instead of having some knee-jerk reaction to all the FUD that has been spread
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Not even close my friend. I've been using one for >18 months and I'll just hit the high points. First there are 2 chips in the Ironkey. The first is a hardware based encryption chip and the second is the actual flash drive. The data on the drive is always encrypted. Also the first won't even mount the second without the proper password (mine is 17 nums, chars, and letters long). You have 10 tries to guess that or the drive destroys all the data. In addition the epoxy they seal them with insures that any attempt to get to the actual flash chips a) damages them heavily and b) also triggers the self-destruct. The second biggie is the on-board browser and identity manager. This gives you the ability to securely surf the web from any computer (I even use mine on my computer whenever I am doing anything financial) and if you are feeling really paranoid you can toggle tor with one click and/or configure Privoxy. The identity manger also allows you to log into sensitive sites without worrying about keystroke loggers. If you really want to see how hardcore this drive is I would suggest you visit their website. To paraphrase an OpenBSD motto: Ironkey the flash drive for the practical paranoid!
If I said "copper wire speed" people would think I as dumb.
:-)
Ah say it, we think that already
WTF? Can we please get a coherent statement. Now to dignify your ramblings with a response. Fair? I don't want fair. There is only one thing I want or expect from my government, and that is to know that when I am going about my business I dont have to worry about some idiot who has decided that America is the source of all his problems gassing/poisoning/bmbing me. If this means that we have to go out and bust some skulls I have no problem with that.( as Mel Brooks said "Its good to be the king" )
Let's not be naive -- under the circumstances (with such a gross overmatch with the US vs any other military force in the world) I think any person that truely thinks about the moral implications has to realise that we (the American population) are legitimate military targets.
I seem to recall a photo when the Oklahoma bombing took place of a fireman carrying out the body of a (dead?) baby. If $your_favorite_terrorist_group had commited that bombing would you like to tell the parents of that child that he was a legitimate military target? Or maybe if you are (un)lucky you can use that as your rational while you sit on the ground looking at you legs laying across the street.
Personally, I don't want America to become a country that needs to be run under police-state/siege-mentality rules just to keep it's citizens from being bombed/poisoned/plagued.
I agree, and now ther is one less regime to provide bombs/poison/plagues to $your_favorite_terrorist_group.
There are also a lot of non-cancerous diseases caused by radiation ;-)
and all the iraqui children that will dye in the future victims of cancer due the depleted uranium used in the american ammonitions
Why is it that people cannot seem to understand that depleted uranium is NOT RADIOACTIVE. This must be the third or fourth time I have run across this same specious argument. I truly wish that people could learn to think rationally about nuclear energy instead of having some knee-jerk reaction to all the FUD that has been spread
BTW I hope english is not your native language