Is this claim justified? Well, that really depends on what you mean by secure. Of course, if you’re California-based IronKey, you just build what its creators claim is the “world’s most secure flash drive”. Others come up with inventive ways of securing the cap (like OCZ’s ATV range), something I wish all manufacturers would do since it’s incredibly annoying to lose them. There are ones dressed up to resemble animals, ones that have extendable cords, and ones that are as flat as two credit-cards stacked together. Some employ unique designs, flashing lights, or odd colours. Of course, with their huge user base, a saturated market and ever narrowing margins due to declining memory prices, manufacturers are being put under ever more pressure to come up with ways of distinguishing their products from the competition. Available in a huge variety of designs, shapes, sizes, colours and capacities, these versatile, extremely portable gadgets are pretty much the most prolific way we move data on physical media today. The current king of mobile storage is the USB memory key.

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