Victorinox Launches Un-Hackable Secure Pro USB drive

Victorinox, the family company behind the famed Swiss Army Knife, has launched a pioneering memory stick device. The firm reports that its Secure Pro USB flash drive is the most secure of its kind available to the public. It uses several layers of security including fingerprint identification and a thermal sensor - so that the finger alone, detached from the body, will still not give access to the memory stick's contents. The Victorinox Secure has also been made tamper-proof. Any attempt to forcibly open it triggers a self-destruct mechanism that irrevocably burns its CPU and memory chip.


Victorinox was so confident of its new product's elite security standards that it offered a £100,000 prize to a team of professional hackers if they could break into it during the two hours the launch event lasted.

And what was the result? The money went uncollected.

The drive comes in 32GB storage capacity and supports AES 256 technology.

It further uses integrated Single Chip Technology, meaning that there are no external and accessible lines between the different coding/security steps, as on multi-chip solutions; this makes cracking the hardware impossible.

What's more, it even packs typical Swiss-knife features such as a retractable ball point pen, blade, scissors, nail file, screwdriver and key ring!

The Victorinox Secure Pro is available in three different sizes, ranging from 8GB to 32GB for $75-$270.