Nov. 12, 2023, 5:01 a.m. | Martin Ward

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The *Wired* article makes a good read.  It gives details on how one company
cracked the encryption of the locked USB drive, in part by examining a
sample of the drive.

It has been many years since I recall reading on this risks forum that
security through obscurity was foolish and futile. The USS drive
manufacturer should have been able to open source everything without
compromising security. Here's a quote from Risks 12:25 "Within the Multics
community, anything less than …

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