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