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New biometric external hard drive released

Wednesday, May 26, 2010

A new biometric-secured external hard drive is being offered by LaCie, a developer of computer hardware and accessories, called The LaCie Rugged Safe.

The hard drive, which comes in either 500 gigabyte or 1 terabyte, also touts a rugged construction and AES 128-bit encryption. The biometric aspect of the device requires a fingerprint swipe of one of the up to ten authorized users to access any of the data contained on it. [end] 

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