Thread: Victorinox Self Destruct USB Security system

So i was on AOL radio listen to a commercial and i over heard that the company that makes the swiss army knife is coming out with a new type of USB. The idea is that you need a finger print, and a real human. They stated that it has a heat sensor to know its a real human finger and not a cut off, if you use the wrong finger 5 times it self destructs. No details on how it self destructs, but i did a little searching and found a contest to break the USB by hacking it. It's in .pdf format, i took a few quotes out to show what it has.

Qualifying Entrant must be the first to open this file in clear text (meaning that it must be possible to read the unencrypted content) without using the correct password / correct fingerprint.

demonstrably succeeds in breaking into or bypassing the Stick’s security functions will be the potential winner

Grand Prize: One Hundred Thousand dollars ($100,000.00) (US).

Discuss...

http://www.swissarmy.com/SearchResul...destruct%20USB

Sounds cool, but the technology will cost you: $75 to $270. The contest you mentioned was this past January; I couldn't find a reference to the results. They just had a similar contest in London with a prize of 100,000 pounds (about $150,000) if it could be cracked in two hours. Reportedly, no one collected.
http://www.sci-tech-today.com/story....58&full_skip=1

aww i was gonna show :<

Originally Posted by Bunni

aww i was gonna show :<

Poor bunni never gets his way.