Blockmaster safestick edition

Chris Hunter Running with Windows 7 compatibility seems to work for me while using XP compatibility doesn't. How satisfied are you with this reply?

Thanks for your feedback, it helps us improve the site. I have the same issue with Windows 8 and my Safestick. I then enter my password as of the password window was there and then click enter - this then gives me access to the files.

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If people say no to these cookies, we do not know how many people have visited and we cannot monitor performance. Review It may make its money shelling shedloads of its security centric USB Flash drives to organisations like the NHS, but Sweden's BlockMaster believes the rest of us likewise need memory sticks with a high level of data protection built in. Leaving aside for a moment the question of whether you really want to keep confidential personal information on a gadget that's so easy to misplace, it's certainly the case that if you do lose a USB key, you don't want whoever finds it to have a nose through your files.

Enter BlockMaster's SafeStick, a compact black metal USB Flash drive with on-board hardware encryption which won't mount its storage space until you've correctly entered the password.

Insert it for the first time, and up pops a read-only partition containing the password entry program. Our review unit had had a password pre-set, but it proved easy enough to change it to something with more than eight characters and with at least one captial letter and one number. Run manually or automatically, SafeStick's access app is a lightweight utility that, beyond opening up the drive's storage and allowing you to change the password, will let you re-lock the SafeStick, reset it to factory state and set an idle period after which it'll lock the storage space automatically.

The latter's handy for folk who're likely to unlock the stick and then wander away from the computer they're using, and it's enabled by default. The app resides entirely on the SafeStick so there's no need to install any code on the machines you'll be plugging the stick into. On Call A warning from the past in today's On Call. Helpfulness is not always rewarded with a pat on the back and a slap-up meal on expenses. Our tale comes from a reader Regomised as Derek and concerns his time working for a multinational with plants at multiple locations in the UK.

A cry for help had to be answered within the hour. One of the plants would start production at on Monday mornings, but started work four hours earlier to make sure things were up to speed. It had two main buildings. One was an office unit, housing the comms and server rooms. The other had an equipment room, with switches and patch panels as well as an operations room with client PCs and expensively large monitors.

In conjunction with a White House meeting on Thursday at which technology companies discussed the security of open source software, Google proposed three initiatives to strengthen national cybersecurity.

The meeting was arranged last month by US national security adviser Jake Sullivan, amid the scramble to fix the Log4j vulnerabilities that occupied far too many people over the holidays.

Sullivan asked invited firms — a group that included Amazon, Apple, Google, IBM, Microsoft, and Oracle — to share ideas on how the security of open source projects might be improved. Google chief legal officer Kent Walker in a blog post said that just as the government and industry have worked to shore up shoddy legacy systems and software, the Log4j repair process — still ongoing — has demonstrated that open source software needs the same attention as critical infrastructure.

Apple's having a problem retaining top chip personnel, with the latest defection being CPU architect Mike Filippo going to Microsoft.