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Regarding Self-Destruct

Chris,

Self-destruct kills the keys and the data. It does render the device inoperative (think of it as theft prevention... no point in stealing one!). We require the device to be unplugged and re-plugged in after 3 bad tries, to prevent accidental disabling.

Keys are locked out and killed instantly. We resume trashing of the encrypted data when power is re-supplied.

Control panel is not open source.

We will have 8GB devices shortly, once the memory supplier delivers them to us. We use only the highest quality SLC flash (10-20 times more reliable than MLC flash which is used in most flash drives), but this is in short supply.

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