This is easily the coolest USB thumb drive ever created. The Ironkey was developed for the US military so their soldiers able to have secure file storage. It comes in 1, 2, and 4GB for $79, $109, and $149, respectively.

Amazing Security

All the drives data are encrypted and 100% unreadable without the correct password. The password is nearly impossible to get too - from the description:

First locally encrypted with 256-bit AES, using randomly generated keys encrypted with a SHA-256 hash of your device password. All of this data is then doubly encrypted with 128-bit AES hardware encryption.

Good luck breaking into that. By the way, you can't even brute force attack it. 10 incorrect password attempts and the encryption chip self-destructs making all data unrecoverable. Facing a physical attack? no way. You cant open the thing without epoxy going everywhere inside the thing wrecking the entire thumb drive again, making everything unrecoverable. Even if the attacker has an scanning electron microscope they will not be able to get in. The thumb drive is electron shielded, so it's pretty much secure.

Secure Firefox

Not only does it have crazy advanced 007 style security, it has what every person needs to hide their tracks effectively, a secure copy of Firefox. Firefox is a very popular web browser, and with good reason - it's amazing. The Firefox on the thumb drive creates a secure VPN tunnel to Ironkey's secure sessions service which all your traffic will go through. By going through this encrypted tunnel, it would be impossible to retrieve any information from the browsing session making it probably the best way to keep your secrets hidden.

Good Enough For War

The sales page says that the Ironkey has seen active duty in Afghanistan. If it's good enough for war, I guess it's good enough for me. Even though I don't do anything important enough to hide... I think I'm going to pick up a 1GB.

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