Sure the Apricorn Aegis looks like a garage door opener. But you wouldn’t get it for its looks, you’d get it for its 256-bit military-grade encryption.
The Aegis holds 16GB of data and connects via a USB 2.0 plug. Its tamper-evident aluminium casing is waterproof, the interior electronics defended by a super tough epoxy compound that can’t be removed without breaking them. It features full-disk AES 256-bit CBC (Cipher-Block Chained) hardware encryption that’s accessible via a seven to fifteen digit numeric PIN. The Aegis is compatible with Windows, Macs, and Linux machines and doesn’t need to install drivers to work with any of them.
It also allows for an admin and user passwords to be set, granting different levels of access to the data on the disk. It also includes a nuke button that resets all user and admin passwords, wipes the data, and resets the encryption. The 16GB retails for $US125 at Apricorn with 4GB and 8GB versions also available. [Apricorn via 7Gadgets]
Blake
Friday, January 13, 2012 at 5:18 PMIt should come with a second partition you can put stuff in, and have a secret fake password that clears the main partition, then copies the second partition into it, then clears the second partition, then unlocks it.
That way if you had military secrets on there, you could fill the second partition with family photos or something, then when pressed for the password, could give the fake one and BAM all they see are photos and your data is safe forever.
Brendan
Monday, January 16, 2012 at 12:34 AMAnd your family, so they can come after you. That is of course you were dumb enough to give them the password.
Vebi
Friday, January 13, 2012 at 5:37 PMEven better ways to lose your information!
Franz
Friday, January 13, 2012 at 6:17 PMActually, I would buy it for it’s looks.
BOB
Friday, January 13, 2012 at 8:27 PMare you blind! it looks terrible! :P
Zeruel
Friday, January 13, 2012 at 10:10 PMPass: 111111