IronKey has realeased what they are calling “the world’s most secure USB flash drive”. It comes in three sizes (1, 2 and 4 Gig) and looks like what you’d expect. But the fun is on the inside: it sports hardware-based military-grade AES encoding, so anything you put on there is immediately encoded by the on-board chip, and is filled with an epoxy compound to protect its innards. But get this: the crypto chip actually self-destructs if it senses that it’s being tampered with (and that’s a hardware self-destruct, not software). Mission Impossible, anyone?

The Personal version also comes with some onboard software, including a hardened version of Mozilla Firefox so you can use that to surf safely via IronKey’s Tor-based Secure Sessions proxy. How cool is that?

It also comes with a password manager and an on-line backup utility so that when you zap one IronKey all you have to do is buy a new one and the encrypted data can be downloaded back to your new drive (all encrypted, so even IronKey employees can’t see into your data).

I wonder if I can convince my boss I want gotta have need this to look cool for work…