Jul 2, 2010

Fujitsu Has Released a Self-destructed Flashcard

Japanese company Fujitsu created an unusual drive based on flash memory,  that is unusual not only with its shape and powerful hardware data encryption, but also with additional measures for information security.

The Japanese always do everything accurately. After all, it’s not a secret that the Japanese technique produced in the Land of the Rising Sun precisely works for years, and their phones are considered to be among the safest in the world, even though they are not very common because of their features. Descendants of the samurai came to storage encrypted data on a flash drive with the traditional carefulness.

The new Fujitsu’s USB-drive with the unusual name Tamatebako has an unusual shape and hardware system of data encryption using AES technologies and 256-bit key. But this is only the first line on the way of the attacker. If the wrong password is entered several times, than the system of self-destruction of information will be launched. It may trigger in an interval from ten minutes to seven days. Users can configure this option personally. This device has quite a large size of the flash drive (70*70*24 mm, 45 g) due to built-in battery that is required for operation of system of slow self-destruction. Incidentally, it is recharged in just five minutes.

Information about the price of such an unusual gadget remains unknown. It’s worth to note that the word Tamatebako means "treasure box" in the translation from the Japanese, but in this case it is used in the sense of "Pandora's box", if translated into the European manner.