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."
Lee Tydlaska has been pondering Thumb Drives, too. "In the porn area, where are they gonna store their pictures? Well, they can store them on these and not even have to have it in their computers. They're easily destroyed and easily overlooked." [Combine this with built-in disk encryption/ autowiping and the ability to use good passwords.. and you've got a nice Cypherpunk Labs (tm) -approved project.] http://www.salon.com/tech/feature/2002/04/22/computer_forensics/index.html
