Today Fujitsu Laboratories announce a couple of new technology that should help prevent data stored on a USB flash drive from end pc gadgets in the wrong hands. The first is the protected USB memory device prototypes pictured above that may have been inspired by a piece of hard derive cheese. It works like your standard USB flash drive Fujitsu computer key drive but it’s got a processor and battery on-board that can be used to mechanically erase the data after a specified amount of time, or if the flash drive is plug into an unregistered computer.

The second growth is a file redirect new technology that can stop notbook windows exile files on a USB flash drive from being saved to another computer, or uploaded to an unapproved server. I’m not exactly sure how that technology is intended to work, since the Fujitsu press release is a little vague on the details, but the goal is to prevent secret files from being e-mail outside the office, or even printed.

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