Many manufacturers of portable drive storage solutions offer some form of encryption to protect user privacy and the data that may be saved on the vendors product. Often, these require some kind of a PIN code or a passphrase in order to unlock the data.

Here’s a twist on data security. Fujitsu has released their Tamatebako USB flash drive. The drives can be enabled to auto-destruct after an alloted period of time. The drives won’t explode per se, but they can be configured to auto-erase confidential files after an expiry time. This time can be set anywhere between 10 minutes and a week. It’s kind of like the TigerText of portable storage. Optionally, the drives can also be setup to erase their contents if an incorrect password has been enabled.

The Fujitsu drives which use the AES-bit encryption protocol is available in 2GB capacity.

Via: AskAlexia