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It seems like the benefits are having the device lock/wipe itself after a set amount of attempts in case of a brute force attack and not having to run software to decrypt the drive on the device you plug it into.

I included a picture of the IronKey Keypad 200 but that's just because it's the first result that came up when I was looking for an example. There seem to be a few other manufacturers and models out there and they probably have different features.

I am curious what do you think of them? Do you think they are useful? Do you find it more a novelty?


It was an ExplainingComputers video titled Very Useful Small Computing Things that made me think of them.

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[–] [email protected] 16 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Looks find to me, depending on your use case, everything would have a use case

Many people mention airport red flags and checks, for me I never had any issues with the airport stuff, except one time in China when I had a full case of wires, really 10kg of wires, and they just asked me me to open and show, np

[–] [email protected] 21 points 9 months ago (3 children)

Why did you have a 10kg bag of wires?

[–] [email protected] 32 points 9 months ago (2 children)

What, do you work at a Chinese airport or something?

[–] [email protected] 14 points 9 months ago (2 children)

I'm the one asking questions here!

[–] [email protected] 7 points 9 months ago

What's your spaghetti policy here

[–] [email protected] 4 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

You said I'd be conducting the interview when I walked in here. Now, exactly how much pot did you smoke?

[–] [email protected] 10 points 9 months ago (2 children)

I like wires! Who doesn't like wires??

I donct have much stuff, but i have a lot of electronics, and at that moment i was very into sdr, so, wires, antennas, adapters, antennas, wires, and also additional hdmis, vgas, ethernet cables, usb, chargers, etc, etc, etc

[–] [email protected] 7 points 9 months ago

Fair, I do like wires

[–] [email protected] 3 points 9 months ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago

Here is an alternative Piped link(s):

Farnsworth, is that you?

Piped is a privacy-respecting open-source alternative frontend to YouTube.

I'm open-source; check me out at GitHub.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago
[–] [email protected] 8 points 9 months ago (1 children)

What do you buy when you're in China. Dude wanted cheap wires. Let him have his cheap wires.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago

There's nothing else to buy if you're in China!

Only except for cheaper original shoes, where i'm right now it's really hard to find original and cheap puma seude