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How to make your flash drive into an impenitrable data safe :P

Okay, so basically what we'll be doing is making it so your generic flashdrive or mp3 player (Basically anything that uses flash memory...) can be safe from a predator finding it and going through what you store on it :)

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Step 1Get some software -.-

Okay, to complete this first step, your gonna have to go and downlaod something :) (sorry :| ) and this something isn't just anything! ITS WINRAR!!!!! you can get this from www.rarlabs.com then go to the downlaods section and get it. Now, since you completed that, go ahead and plug in your usb flash drive.

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36 comments

Mar 11, 2008. 12:32 PMtechwiz says:

If you do loose your flash drive, and someone else finds all they have to do os format the disk and they have a new flash drive.

Feb 25, 2011. 9:40 AMdkowis says:

Well yeah, but not your data.

Nov 13, 2008. 12:09 PMjoseph_trout says:

you don't have to waste your money on Winrar. Peazip will do the same thing with higher encryption methods for free.

Feb 25, 2011. 9:39 AMdkowis says:

Reccomend 7-zip

www.7zip.org Free and open source :)

Oct 13, 2008. 5:12 AMDELETED_evilfrogie says:

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May 15, 2009. 8:20 PMRedFlash says:

how

Oct 2, 2010. 4:20 AMGavabc123 says:

with brute force attacks of course

Oct 2, 2010. 4:37 PMRedFlash says:

Duh! What was I thinking.

Bit late with the reply though, lol

Jul 8, 2010. 11:25 AMmukek says:

.uha is better

Dec 1, 2009. 4:30 PMGage987 says:

Ironkey.
I want one.

Mar 2, 2010. 5:19 AMRedgerr says:

they are so epicly awsome... most secure thing ever

Sep 9, 2009. 9:34 PMbrendene123 says:

I use Truecrypt to create a encrypted virtual partition and use Ihound (http://www.ihoundsoftware.com) in the "public" partition. Ihound is free for up to 3 devices and once set up, will email you the IP Address and location of your flash drive. I also make a copy of the encrypted file and stick it on an online storage website like ADrive. That way if all is lost I still have an encrypted backup that I can access and download anywhere I can get on the web.
I have set up a drive like this for a friend who was in the process of getting divorced and it gave considerable peace of mind knowing that his notes and photos for his lawyer were safe even if his ex wife had the drive in her possession and he would know immediately when she plugged it in and where.
The only thing I would like on top of all that would be to have some way of auto erasing the files if an incorrect password was entered 3 times in a row like the IronKey system.

Jun 20, 2009. 9:07 PMRedFlash says:

Why not just use Truecrypt? That's government standard encryption

Feb 20, 2009. 8:28 PMEaglesNestOne says:

I highly recommend IZArc it supports almost all archiving formats ( 7-ZIP, A, ACE, ARC, ARJ, B64, BH, BIN, BZ2, BZA, C2D, CAB, CDI, CPIO, DEB, ENC, GCA, GZ, GZA, HA, IMG, ISO, JAR, LHA, LIB, LZH, MDF, MBF, MIM, NRG, PAK, PDI, PK3, RAR, RPM, TAR, TAZ, TBZ, TGZ, TZ, UUE, WAR, XXE, YZ1, Z, ZIP, ZOO and more). http://www.izarc.org/

Jan 31, 2009. 1:52 AMpaulsima01 says:

you know u can just use google :) and also on google you can find a free version

Nov 21, 2008. 1:53 PMfwjs28 says:

IM GONNA PRANK CALL YOUR HOUSE.....*runs and dials phone number*

Dec 5, 2008. 6:02 AM

dombeef says:

is that a real phone number , did you try?

Dec 5, 2008. 9:07 AMfwjs28 says:

sadly i actually did...just to see what the phone would say....

Dec 6, 2008. 1:00 PM

dombeef says:

lol but is it real? lol!

Dec 6, 2008. 3:19 PMfwjs28 says:

no..its said **du do du!!!** were sorry this number is unavailable...please check the number and try again....and it just keeps playing over and over untill u hang up...

Nov 13, 2008. 12:10 PMjoseph_trout says:

you don't have to waste your money on Winrar. Peazip will do the same thing with higher encryption methods for free.

Oct 28, 2008. 4:02 PMF1X0R says:

You can get free-to-use programs that will crack that password in a matter of minutes right? That isn't impenetrable at all. In fact, getting round it is quite trivial.

Oct 10, 2008. 9:30 PMlpirkel says:

I don't know about this.... you would have to re-zip up any new files that you put on the flash drive. Too much work for me.

May 3, 2008. 10:32 PMmerseyless says:

lol i know where you live ( and your phone number, name and email) besides that good ible

Aug 14, 2008. 7:37 PMAnarchistAsian says:

they're made up, not real.

Aug 16, 2008. 3:25 AMmerseyless says:

it was sarcasm.

Aug 16, 2008. 10:40 AMAnarchistAsian says:

w/e...

Feb 10, 2008. 9:06 PMIamTheCreator (author) says:

Very true, very true. :)

Feb 10, 2008. 4:37 PMKissMyHuman says:

I suggest looking into TrueCrypt since it mounts the encrypted file as a virtual partition. The main fatal flaw in your tutorial is that a compression program will uncompress your file to a temp directory where it can then be recovered from later even after deletion. Password protecting compressed files should really only be used for creating annoyances for the average curious person (i.e. password protecting your girlie pictures if you share a computer with your family or roommate)

Dec 20, 2007. 2:33 PMPsyber says:

you may just want to use something like truecrypt instead. It has quite a few features, its free, and it has multiple levels of security (i.e. hidden encrypted volume inside an encrypted volume so you could feasibly give up the password without giving up the protected data) Good stuff

Dec 13, 2007. 3:01 PMGorillazMiko says:

your windows vista looks cool. all of them look cool. haha

Dec 13, 2007. 2:49 PMicanryme2002 says:

Formatted

Dec 13, 2007. 2:33 PMIamTheCreator (author) says:

Yeah good point, plus, the average person may not have a .rar cracker :P

Dec 13, 2007. 1:58 PMGreenDay says:

I wouldn't put my address in it. If someone was to steal a knapsack with the flash drive and your house keys, you wouldn't want them knowing where your house was. It actually happened to a friend of mine a while back, but instead of the flashdrive having his address it was his school agenda.