Lenovo's 'encrypted' fingerprint USB drive is just an unencrypted SD card in a fancy case — AI-assisted follow-up finds a backdoor and hardcoded keys in other ‘secure’ USB products (updated)
www.tomshardware.com
The fingerprint only switched the USB connection on; nothing on the card was encrypted.
  • SayCyberOnceMore@feddit.ukEnglish
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    2 days ago

    Our problem is that we’re using these as boot drives and transferring files to appliances (ie network switches, etc) so we can’t use a lot of the software based encryption.

    I’ll just hope that the iStorage and Apricorn drives use more than smoke & mirrors to protect the contents