Disabling USB Flash Drive Unless Have Passcode

xboxhaxorz · Post by **xboxhaxorz** » Thu Sep 01, 2005 12:41 am

i know there are several applications that will encrypt folders on the usb flash drive
but how about some way to totally disable the usb flash drive unless a password is given

Post by **FlyingPenguin** » Thu Sep 01, 2005 7:31 am

None that I've heard. It would require a special USB Flash drive.

I'm suprised we haven't seen any biometric flash drives yet. Microsoft already has a biometric fingerprint reader. I think it would be possible to make a falsh drive with a built in reader so only the original owner can access the files.

TruckStuff · Post by **TruckStuff** » Thu Sep 01, 2005 9:09 am

If you encrypt the whole file system (not just one dir or the root dir), you won't be able to read the drive without the password. There's been a lot of work on this in the Linux community; don't know much about it on Windows though.

b-man1 · Post by **b-man1** » Thu Sep 01, 2005 9:11 am

there are biometric usb memory sticks out there...just not very common yet.

http://www.kanguru.com/biodrive.html

http://www.card-media.co.uk/biodisk.htm