More BE for your Buck

[nothingclever]

Originally Posted by PrBlahBlahtson

Actually I can see a legitimate use for it in storing SSN or other sensative data that keeps getting stolen/lost. While government-level resources could get things off it in an action-movie-esque sequence, 99.9% of the population wouldn't have a way to lift the data. A few private sector companies could, but they charge 4+ figures for their services, and as soon as they found out what you had (and you didn't know yourself,) the game would be up.

Here's scenarios I see happening:
- Idiot criminal picks it up, tries to break in, fails, blows up the data.
- Idiot cop gets it, sees it has a password, tries to format it for personal use, fails, it gets trashed or tossed in a lost-and-found or evidence locker.
- Smart cop gets it, knows that the office doesn't have the resources/money to waste on finding out what's inside, it ends up in a drawer somewhere.

Yes, it's not 100% fool proof, but from a security stand-point it's reasonably well encrypted and protected. If someone insisted they HAD to have company records with them when they traveled, something like that is what I'd want them carried on.

But that's a dead giveaway, I'd hide it in the shittiest travel drive from costco but keep the fancy usb with me. Everyone in the world knows that a really secure anything means either "good stuff" or porn.