USB Lost And Found is a software program that provides an interesting way to inform a finder of an USB stick about the rightful owner. Something that might come in quite handy for British government officials and citizens working in IT. The free version can be configured to display a message that is linked to [...]
Another USB Stick With Important Data Lost In The UK
Living in the United Kingdom has one major downside which became apparent in the last years. The government likes to collect all sorts of data about their citizens but seems incapable of securing that data. Laptops, USB sticks and other data sources get lost regularly and reveal important information about British citizens to its finders.
The [...]
How To Create Multiple USB Stick Partitions
USB Sticks cannot contain multiple partitions by default. It is however possible to create multiple partitions on an USB stick by modifying and installing a new driver which disguises the USB stick as a USB hard drive. It is highly recommended to backup all data on the USB stick before continuing.
Users who want to create [...]
Create Your Own USB Stick
Something interesting for the weekend. If you feel that the usual retail usb sticks are to boring you might want to give designing your own a try. You can do that at the Fabidoo website which not only offers the creation of unique usb sticks but all kinds of like animals or hearts which would [...]
Flash Memory with Iris identification
Everyone is able to access data on normal usb sticks unless the data on the stick is encrypted with softwares like True Crypt for instance. Software based encryptions however require that the software to decrypt the data is actually installed on the system. It would not be possible to decrypt the data. The user also needs to know the password to decrypt the data, if the password is lost the data is lost unless a weak password was chosen during the encryption process.
