Disguised USB memory stick

[Pat McCotter]

Your Flash-Drive's Been HACKED!

We've got the tiniest flash-drives, and we've got flash-drives that are hardened against attack. Now, we've got flash-drives that look like they've been hacked! Imagine yourself, sitting in a coffee-shop. You pull out your venerable laptop, and fire it up. You may not realize it, but there are jealous eyes on your hardware. They see your computer and size you up. Is the computer you carry worth trying to steal? Are you enough of a threat to them? The mental-calculations proceed apace. That is until you reach for your flash drive.

You pull from your bag a seemingly torn and frayed piece of USB cabling. Immediately, your potential miscreant raises an eyebrow. Exactly what does he think he's going to do with that cable? Grinning like a madman, you plug your phantom USB device into your computer, and happily continue on with your work, apparently oblivious to your devices obvious lack of connectivity.

It appears to all around you that you are, indeed, mad. In fact, what you've really done is plug in a 2 gigabyte flash drive that's masterfully disguised as a frayed and broken USB cable. You've managed to make it appear that you're insane, and as all thieves know - never EVER screw with an insane person.

[Jim Johnson]

The problem with that, is that know the feds know anything that plugs into a USB could be a  USB memory stick.

Of course if one hides their stick in a pile of crap, it's like hiding in plan site.

[Organjic]

buy a tiny usb memory stick, tie it to a string and the other end to a tooth and swallow the drive.

[Lloyd Danforth]

Real   Secret Agents just swallow them and get them......you know....later.

[K. Darien Freeheart]

Any data worth protecting is best served encrypted and not on your person.

ThinkGeeks makes some goofy stuff though.

[error]

Well, now the feds know about this trick, so they'll be looking for your fake USB memory stick.

[n/a]

i always thought USB flash drives would be great promotion products for stuff like the FSP.  you can buy them in bulk for pretty cheap; have them embossed with symbols/words, and save files like ebooks/information flyers/videos/music/etc... that people can check out when they plug the sticks in.  plus, it's something they can use again, so they won't just chuck it out.

i like these:
bamboo memory sticks - embossed with company logo
128MB to 4GB
$7.50/each to $29.00/each

http://www.memorysuppliers.com/usbfldrstba.html

they also have cute ones that look like sticks:
http://www.memorysuppliers.com/usbfldrsttw1.html

or cheap wristband flash drives:
http://www.memorysuppliers.com/usbfldrstwr.html