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Lenovo's 'encrypted' fingerprint USB drive is just an unencrypted SD card in a fancy case (www.tomshardware.com)
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[–] GreenKnight23@lemmy.world 7 points 4 days ago

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The FU100 is “just an SD card in a fancy case,” Li said in a March conference talk. It is, as a result, trivial for anyone with physical access to get to the drive’s data.

I bet some engineer was tasked with the whole thing, under budget, over extended, and had their whole team cost savings cut from covid when they built that.