Comments on: IronKey: Encrypted Flash Drive (Review)

By: Sahas Katta

Sahas Katta — Thu, 20 Aug 2009 07:14:04 +0000

You probably shouldn’t be using an IronKey to break school rules and regulations! :) (or any laws for that matter) The intended purpose is to protect your privacy.

And YES, your IP is masked since it goes through dedicated Tor Servers. If you are on a small school network, it doesn’t mean that they can’t see that some one is randomly accessing proxy servers from across the world. So be careful ;)

You can check your IP Address here: http://ip.skattertech.com

By: s

Thu, 09 Apr 2009 04:17:14 +0000

i’m interested in the VPN portion of the secure web browsing using the built-in Firefox. Does this hide all information from your ISP and if using on a school computer, does it safeguard yourself from data packets the school could potentially try to intercept? also, if playing online video games through the Firefox browser, does it mask/hide your IP so they can’t ban your real IP??

By: Thomaz

Thomaz — Mon, 23 Feb 2009 11:20:39 +0000

You know, 90% of the posts here are bullshit. Ironkey is a good product, do your research and you will agree.

By: dave ironkey

dave ironkey — Mon, 15 Dec 2008 23:57:22 +0000

I have looked into Neil’s case referred above (case 00023997). It turns out that we replaced his device and upgraded him to an 8GB device at no extra charge several months ago. We also made sure that the customer support representative who originally dealt with this case no longer makes that kind of mistake with handling customer issues. Thanks to everyone for your continued support.
Dave

By: dave ironkey

dave ironkey — Sat, 13 Dec 2008 07:31:36 +0000

I appreciate all the comments and critiques here. Thanks for your feedback and for trying our product.

As someone who worked at Apple for 4 years, leading software teams and eventually working for the CEO, I have great respect for Apple and their paradigm for ease of use. We have supported Mac OSX 10.4 for over a year, and have been continually improving our Mac support. Its true that we only support secure storage, device initialization and password change, but we’re working on a port of full Enterprise features. I want to thank all our alpha and beta customers for your support during the last year.

I am shocked to hear that a customer had a problem with their device that was not rectified by a replacement. I will look into your case number on monday and get it dealt with. My apologies.

Dave
CEO, IronKey

By: Roi Serry

Roi Serry — Fri, 12 Dec 2008 15:40:09 +0000

Guys,
Ironkey is the most boastful maker of secure USB drives in the world :-)
They play their marketing game like it was a kindergarten.
Do you want an example?
Last week SanDisk distributed a press release announcing their products to be the first secure USB drives that FULLY support Macintosh operating system.
So how did IronKey react?
They distribute their own
PR announcing “IronKey Celebrates First Anniversary of Its Secure USB Flash Drive for Macintosh” how embracing can that be? I guess you need much more than distributing a counter PR to backup your statements.
More than that, just by declaring you are the best doesn’t necessary means it is true.
Roi

By: AES 256

AES 256 — Thu, 11 Dec 2008 14:02:31 +0000

to Lude – You have not seen other products like this on the market? There are a few, Sandisk, Kanguru, Kingston and MXI security, all of which provide AES 256 bit encryption not just the Federal government MINIMUM of AES 128. and FYI AES 256 is 3.8×10^36 times stronger than AES 128, thats like a whole beach compared to a grain of sand….

Careful when buying an Ironkey, there is a $20-$50 annual cost to using there online secure key store.

Also, all its cool features are the equivilant of what the MXI security device coud do a long time ago, and that has a biometric swipe to dodge key stroke logging!

Serioulsy, if you’re gonna talk security lets not be wowed by the marketing.

By: Mahalaleel

Mahalaleel — Tue, 26 Aug 2008 10:05:53 +0000

@ironman is a nob-end / neil gunder:
You state that you broke your IronKey by changing your password back to a previous version on a Mac… how would you do that? Mac is not even supported yet; IronKey only made an unlocker available for the Mac, which is in Alpha-stage.. (Mac is not officially supported (yet))

By: Ironman

Ironman — Sat, 16 Aug 2008 21:52:06 +0000

Go away noob !

By: ironman is a nob-end

ironman is a nob-end — Fri, 15 Aug 2008 03:01:55 +0000

@ironman – nice try ironkey employee. Try changing your password back to a previous version on a mac, watch it go bye bye. Not arguing it’s a great device when it works, but at least acknowledge the problems.

By: ironman

ironman — Fri, 15 Aug 2008 00:58:38 +0000

Ironkey is the best usb key ever. You are a group of noob who understand nothing to computer science… go back to your sandbox and let us quiet.
Ironkey is unbreakable, waterproof, etc… it’s really excellent that’s all !
If you don’t agree with that, go away noobs ! : http://montrealex.labrute.fr

That’s all for today.
Go back with your USB Key “samsung” at 20$ for noobs ah ah ah…

By: neil gunder

neil gunder — Tue, 29 Jul 2008 00:26:52 +0000

Don’t buy one of these, or if you do don’t change the password back to a previous password – after I did this I couldn’t unlock mine, even when using the recover password function and their support. Eventually it self destructed and they won’t replace it. Finally why would they use a cap on the end, it falls off all the time.
Don’t buy one and when you decide not to – please email support@ironkey.com stating you didn’t buy one because of case number – 00023997

By: Lude

Lude — Mon, 16 Jun 2008 08:59:50 +0000

Dublidubidoo… What are you talking about?

Putting the key in + restart should not give access to the data. Are you refering to already having typed in the password?

Trojan.. why would Iron Key put a trojan on the key to start with? Maybe I dont understand your gripe but I dont see any other products on the market like the Iron Key. I dont own one (yet) but seems like its a very impressive product with hardware encryption built in.

By: Dublidubidoo

Dublidubidoo — Thu, 12 Jun 2008 22:09:04 +0000

Let me tell you, Ironkey’s security is totally a joke.
Do this: put the ironkey in your USB port, and restart your computer, and…guess what? you have full access to the key.

and also, the key itself takes up to 2 drive letters, one is virtual optical drive, and the other is the storage itself. Two letters, thats not good.

also, it does also run the program at background, who know that’s not a trojan it’s running??

By: Andy

Andy — Thu, 12 Jun 2008 12:54:30 +0000

Please clarify this for me, thank you..

Since IronKey controls the server your traffic will exit from, you get the benefit of additional online protection. IronKey performs a check (what kind of check I wonder, sounds like a rogue agent can spy on someone Hmmm..?).. to ensure that your traffic goes to the actual destination site using known DNS databases. It will also check (Hmmm. another check??)to make sure that it is not a known phishing site. These anti-pharming and anti-phishing methods give you the latest in online protection.

Maybe I’m missing something in understanding how this works but it sounds like ironkey has access to what many would think to be private. Can you clarify?

Thanks Andy