Here's the scenario: your laptop is sitting somewhere away from you (say underneath a car seat while you are on the beach in Maui) when it suddenly goes further away from you.
Under someone's arm.
There goes all your secure passwords, saved bank account info, User IDs, credit card numbers, and thousands of meticulously chosen tabs for Mozilla Firefox.
It's that nightmare I keep dreaming of, but really haven't done anything about.
And, wouldn't you know it, the above just happened to someone near and dear to us in our office.
I saw this IronKey Flash Drive the other day and I've been thinking about it ever since. Here's their pitch:
"Instead of creating a "password file" on your computer or using the same password for everything, have your IronKey store and remember your passwords... it can securely store your sensitive online identity information, including usernames, passwords, credit card numbers and addresses."
Essentially, you can use one password for the IronKey and unlock all your passwords.
And what if you lose your IronKey?
Ha! They've thought of that:
"Your passwords are encrypted and backed up to your Online Security Vault using our state-of-the-art encrypted backup technology. Synchronize password data between IronKeys, or, if your IronKey is ever lost or stolen, securely restore all your passwords to a new IronKey. Only you can access and decrypt your passwords."
Not bad for $79 for a 1GB flash drive, right? But I feel there must be something I'm missing, because that seems kind of cheap.
Regardless, I think I know what I'm getting a special someone for Christmas, Hanukkah, and Kwanzaa.
Best of all, I'm using her credit card info!
All the info on the IronKey site.
(photo by timparkinson via flickr)
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