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Report: Lenovo fingerprint USB drive holds an unencrypted SD card

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A report on the Hacker News front page at 22:34 on November 1 says a Lenovo fingerprint USB storage device marketed as having encryption turned out, once taken apart, to be an unencrypted SD card inside a shell. The fingerprint feature did not provide actual data encryption. The report covers only the teardown finding. It does not include a Lenovo response, the specific product model or any follow-up.

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LatestNov 1 22:34
A report says a Lenovo fingerprint USB drive contains an unencrypted SD card, with the fingerprint feature providing no actual data encryption.

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Nov 1
  1. Hacker News front page
    Lenovo's 'encrypted' fingerprint USB is just an unencrypted SD card in a case

    Lenovo 一款宣称“加密”的指纹 USB 被拆解发现，内部只是一张未加密的 SD 卡加外壳，指纹功能并未提供实际数据加密。

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