# Good flash drive encyrption?
**URL:** https://forums.speedlife.net/t/good-flash-drive-encyrption/55115
**Category:** NYSpeed Off Topic
**Created:** [September 18, 2008, 5:54am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/good-flash-drive-encyrption/55115 "2008-09-18T05:54:39Z")
**Posts on this page:** 12
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### Author:  [@Dr.Stevil](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Dr.Stevil)
#### Post date: [September 18, 2008, 5:54am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/good-flash-drive-encyrption/55115/1 "2008-09-18T05:54:39Z")
Well, I messed up and left a flash drive laying around where some douche was able to format it on me (I know who it was), and copy who knows what from it… including financial info (I’m sure this can be classified as some kind of privacy violation, among etheical since it happened @ work… but I’m not going to go into that right now. Still debating on how I want to handle it).
the fggt even, as far as I can tell, did a low level format on it since I can’t see anything to undelete (unless flash memory works differently than physical memory). So to prevent this from ever happening again, I want to encrypt the drive from prying eyes, malicious “employees” among others.
can you suggest a program? My old geeksquad 1gb drive has the U3 security but prefer the larger space on the PNY. Any ideas?
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### Author:  [@LZ1](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/LZ1)
#### Post date: [September 18, 2008, 6:05am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/good-flash-drive-encyrption/55115/2 "2008-09-18T06:05:47Z")
Fuck everything else…
[https://www.ironkey.com/](https://www.ironkey.com/)
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### Author:  [@Dr.Stevil](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Dr.Stevil)
#### Post date: [September 18, 2008, 6:09am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/good-flash-drive-encyrption/55115/3 "2008-09-18T06:09:06Z")
yeah, I saw that… how do they work? They’re supposed to “self distruct” after so many failed logins (or if it’s tampered with)
I’d like to salvage this one, but I will deffinitly be buying one of those the next time I’m in the market for one
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### Author:  [@Dr.Stevil](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Dr.Stevil)
#### Post date: [September 18, 2008, 6:42am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/good-flash-drive-encyrption/55115/4 "2008-09-18T06:42:00Z")
fuck it… I’m buying one. What is the “safe surfing” feature?
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### Author:  [@LZ1](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/LZ1)
#### Post date: [September 18, 2008, 7:45am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/good-flash-drive-encyrption/55115/5 "2008-09-18T07:45:20Z")
> [@Dr.Stevil](#):
>
> fuck it… I’m buying one. What is the “safe surfing” feature?
It runs Firefox off the jump drive…I think they also offer some SSL proxy feature…unless I am thinking of another company.
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### Author:  [@boxxa](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/boxxa)
#### Post date: [September 18, 2008, 8:46am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/good-flash-drive-encyrption/55115/6 "2008-09-18T08:46:34Z")
i bet with some research you can make any usb drive do this.
i started playing with a secure usb drive that was used as my browser cache and encryption using some free tools but i got busy with other projects and stopped.
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### Author:  [@BuickGN](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/BuickGN)
#### Post date: [September 18, 2008, 9:27am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/good-flash-drive-encyrption/55115/7 "2008-09-18T09:27:57Z")
fitting avatar!
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### Author:  [@Matt\_Danger](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Matt_Danger)
#### Post date: [September 18, 2008, 9:43am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/good-flash-drive-encyrption/55115/8 "2008-09-18T09:43:06Z")
Take any flash drive, lay a few passes of random data, then either create an encrypted image on the device or encrypt the whole device.
[http://www.truecrypt.org/](http://www.truecrypt.org/) seems to be the most popular.
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### Author:  [@Vile](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Vile)
#### Post date: [September 18, 2008, 12:57pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/good-flash-drive-encyrption/55115/9 "2008-09-18T12:57:47Z")
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i remember seeing one that had an attachment you would wear or keep on you… and after u stepped out of range, the drive would be unuseable… cant remember where i saw it.
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### Author:  [@Dr.Stevil](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Dr.Stevil)
#### Post date: [September 18, 2008, 1:10pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/good-flash-drive-encyrption/55115/10 "2008-09-18T13:10:28Z")
^ awesome :tup:
btw, COD4?
thanks for the help advice people. I guess I’m not the first this has happened to either (just talked with a co-worker)… valuable lesson learned
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### Author:  [@Locutus](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Locutus)
#### Post date: [September 18, 2008, 1:12pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/good-flash-drive-encyrption/55115/11 "2008-09-18T13:12:44Z")
[ironkey.com](http://ironkey.com)
/thread.
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### Author:  [@JustinH](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/JustinH)
#### Post date: [September 18, 2008, 2:20pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/good-flash-drive-encyrption/55115/12 "2008-09-18T14:20:33Z")
we use trucrypt…
[http://www.truecrypt.org/](http://www.truecrypt.org/)