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hcso1510
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Scenario You allow a "trusted individual" to use your flash drive to view a piece of material that you have on it. The individual views the material, copies the full contents of your drive and pastes it to their computer.

Is there a program that you could install on your thumb drive that would protect the contents from being copied?

Thanks!


   
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azrael
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In a nutshell - No.

The logic is basically - if you allow someone to "read" something, then they have the ability to do anything with their "read" copy.


   
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jaclaz
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Even more scary, there are tools that do it silently in the background, so that even if you closely watch the "trusted individual" and what he/she does whilst the stick is connected, you have NO way to detect that in the background a copy is performed.

And there are even worse things in life (, like switchblade
http//www.hak5.org/w/index.php/USB_Switchblade
(that works silently the other way around)

jaclaz


   
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