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Encrypted USB Flash Drives Explained - DIY in 5 Ep 92

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Oh don’t worry - I wouldn’t concoct a super-secret plan to take over the world and

then store it in the cloud where people could find it!

I’d put it on my own private flash drive that I left in my pants at the drycleaners like an idiot!!!

Hello everyone and welcome to DIY in 5.

My name is Trisha Hershberger and today we are going to go over ways to make your portable

storage secure even if it should accidentally fall into the wrong hands.

Whether it be financial papers, personal photos, sensitive work documents

or a master plan to take over the world,

it’s your private data and you should be able to keep it that way.

Did you know that roughly 22 thousand USB drives are lost at the drycleaners every year?!

And nearly half of the people that find them plug them in and click on at least one file!?

I mean, maybe they are altruistically thinking they’ll find your contact info and return it but still!

So what are your options for securing your portable storage?

Secure USB drives are basically encrypted data on a stick.

They use a dedicated processor physically located on the drive that generates an encryption key

and some even have a numerical keypad on the drive so that you can set a pin.

This Kingston DataTraveler 2000 rocks the keypad we just mentioned and therefore,

requires no driver or software installation on your PC.

You can also turn a regular USB into a secure USB

using 3rd party software like BitLocker from Microsoft.

BitLocker is an encryption feature included with most versions of Microsoft Windows that


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