Unlike a slew of other gadget/gizmo Web sites that have been reporting inaccurate and incomplete facts in the past few days about the Personal Pocket Safe USB Drive, StuffGeeksWant does its homework, and we’ve found there’s much more to this data encryption device than meets the eye.
To begin with, the Personal Pocket Safe – also known as the PPS8100 – is NOT your run-of-the-mill USB flash drive that requires you to enter a PIN code to access. It’s much more than that. In fact its parent company, Black Box Innovations, doesn’t really like to call it a USB flash drive in the general sense. While it will store one gigabyte of data, it’s not a flash drive that you just drop any and all files and applications onto. Instead, the Pocket Safe has it’s own Windows-ready application embedded on the drive that organizes your vital records. Following a series of pre-formatted fields, you simply enter important data on your car, home, bank accounts, investments, insurance policies, etc., even attach documents, photos, and other images to the appropriate groups.
Once you’ve got your valuable personal information on the drive, you can be assured it’s safe from prying eyes because of its various levels of security. Firstly, the drive is protected by a PIN code of three to 10 digits you enter on its keypad. Don’t enter the code within two minutes of docking the drive? It locks up for two minutes. Enter the PIN wrong three times? It locks up for two minutes. Forget the code? There’s an optional PIN replacement assistance service. Attempt to remove the physical flash RAM or fool around with the encryption controller or security controller? It will automatically destroy all the data. You get the idea…It’s pretty damn secure, and it comes with online backup software that will automatically backup your data in case it does self destruct or you lose it. The only bummer as we see it…it only works with Windows, but the company has future plans for a Macintosh version, we were told today.
So there you have it. REAL facts on the Personal Pocket Safe USB Drive. It’s our pleasure.
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