> Variola quotes from an article: > > Occasionally a new piece of hardware comes along that initially stumps > investigators. > Stenhouse mentions one of the newer Thumb Drives. "There's one that > requires a thumbprint > onto the Thumb Drive itself. They have a pad where you actually have to > put your thumb on > it when you plug it in. Well, right now if you gave me one I would have > to ponder how to > forensically gather the data off it."
Tydlaska (the one quoted above) is either misquoted or misinformed. www.thumbdrive.com plainly shows a thumbprint is not used by the drive at all. The 'secure' version prompts a user for a password to access a thumb drive folder, but doesn't tie into any form of biometrics. As for a forensic copy, a memory dump to RAM then back to another thumb drive might be possible, but this would require special software (not difficult to produce.) phillip
