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beloch • today at 1:09 AM • 0 replies • view on HN

A fingerprint encrypted USB drive is just a bad concept to begin with.

1. Anyone who has access to the drive likely also has a nice sample of your fingerprint on the same device.

2. Hardware encryption implementations are often unknown, flawed, or completely missing. You shouldn't place trust in obscurity.

3. Hardware encryption often adds an unnecessary point of failure. I've seen drives with hardware encryption implemented on a daughter board become unrecoverable because the daughter board failed, even though the drive itself was just fine.

Put a software encrypted volume on a normal storage device and call it a day. Don't pay extra to do worse.