Secure your thumbdrive the old-fashioned way with USBlock

Posted by Rob Beschizza, August 6, 2008 7:12 AM | permalink

Who needs AES encryption when you can attach a briefcase-style plastic "lock" to a thumbdrive's plug? It also works a treat with mice, USB cables, and any other peripherals you inexplicably wish to render unusable.

Thanko, a god among crapvendors, knows what it's doing. And it's just opened an English-language store, reports CrunchGear's Serkan Toto. God help us.

My favorite part is how the item's own product page has a big picture on it demonstrating how to pick the lock with a paper clip.

Product Page [Thanko via Crunchhear]

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#1 posted by hotkey , August 6, 2008 7:39 AM

These are not instructions on how to pick the lock. They're showing how to set the combination to open it.

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#2 posted by mazerrackham , August 6, 2008 10:03 AM

The best pic is the one showing it locking...a generic USB cable. Scenarios run through my head in which this thwarts a criminal mastermind, and they are all awesome.

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#3 posted by Downpressor , August 6, 2008 5:55 PM

I'm tempted to get one just to "lock" a generic cable and have the other end of the cable threaded down the back of my desk just to see people's reactions.

BTW Thanko's retail shop in Akihabara has a very odd smell...

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#4 posted by Tony Moore , August 9, 2008 10:33 AM

i think i need to get this to shock my muscles into shape, so i can protect my data the oldest-fashioned way, with my fists!

http://www.raremonoshop.com/us/products/usb/usb-powered/ems-muscle-mouse.html

that site is loaded with things i don't know how i have managed to live without.