Hacked USB Flash Drive

by Fred

Product Details

• Product Dimensions: 8 x 3.5 x 1 inches ; 12 ounces
• Shipping Weight: 8 ounces
• ASIN: B001L670LY
• Average Customer Review: 3.3 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
• Date first available at Amazon.com: November 25, 2008

Product Description

We've got the tiniest flash-drives, and we've got flash-drives that are hardened against attack. Now, we've got flash-drives that look like they ve been hacked! Imagine yourself, sitting in a coffee-shop. You pull out your venerable laptop, and fire it up. You may not realize it, but there are jealous eyes on your hardware. They see your computer and size you up. Is the computer you carry worth trying to steal? Are you enough of a threat to them? The mental-calculations proceed apace. That is until you reach for your flash drive.

You pull from your bag a seemingly torn and frayed piece of USB cabling. Immediately, your potential miscreant raises an eyebrow. Exactly what does he think he's going to do with that cable? Grinning like a madman, you plug your phantom USB device into your computer, and happily continue on with your work, apparently oblivious to your devices obvious lack of connectivity.

It appears to all around you that you are, indeed, mad. In fact, what you ve really done is plug in a 2 gigabyte flash drive that's masterfully disguised as a frayed and broken USB cable. You've managed to make it appear that you're insane, and as all thieves know - never EVER mess with an insane person.

Customer Reviews

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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Look, your girlfriend is going to throw this away..., October 7, 2010

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Michael A. Duvernois (Minneapolis, MN United States) - See all my reviews
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...because it looks like a piece of garbage. I mean, it's a USB memory stick disguised as a cutoff cable. Yeah, it's kinda funny, but then it gets thrown away along with your downloaded anime and bootlegged Hawkwind concerts.

5.0 out of 5 stars Great gag gift, with a real purpose!, January 7, 2011

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Melissa M. Hemenway (Connecticut, USA) - See all my reviews
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Gave this as a stocking-stuffer, last year... My other half has it sticking out the back of his massive computer at work and looks hilarious!

10 of 41 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Be Careful Where You Put This!, April 12, 2010

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Kort "Art, Music, Book & Movie Enthusiast" (Boca Raton, FL, United States) - See all my reviews
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When I first saw this product I thought to myself, "Hey, what a neat idea!" I've used the hacked USB cord trick for some time now and I've yet to be mugged while sipping down Double Mocha Latés at Starbucks. I find it works really well when used in conjunction with wearing Crazy Black Red Streak Clubbing Wig and stitting next to Psycho Sam. I can use free wireless all day long and not even the coffee shop employees will bother me.

Anyway, I figured it would be good to not only have a frayed USB cable but also working USB drive,so I placed my order. I was a little hesitant because I could get a 16GB USB flash drive for nearly the same price, but I figure you're paying for the fancy frayed cable housing. Oh well. After about a week and a half, it arrived in the mail. I was anxious to go test it out figured I should load it up with some files first, just to make sure it worked. It did with no problems and I put about 100 of Ween's greatest hits on it to enjoy while surfing the web at Starbucks. Not thinking, I disconnected the USB drive from my desktop and threw it in the drawer.

BIG MISTAKE! That was the drawer where I kept all of my other frayed USB cables; the ones that aren't actual USB flash drives. Later, when I went to retrieve it, I realized my mistake. It looked just like all of the other frayed USB cables (I have a hundred or so)! It took me almost two hours but I finally found the Flash drive again. Frustrated at the delay, I dropped it on the desk. My cat, who had been sitting on the desk next to me, entertained by my swearing and gesticulations, chose this moment to swat at the Hacked USB Flash drive and knocked it onto the floor -- with all of the other discarded cords.

An hour later I finally found it again. This time I took a red Sharpie and drew a dot on connector. Would it have killed them to do this at the factory? It was getting late but I thought I could still make an appearance at Starbucks so I grabbed my things, let the mewling cat out of the bathroom and was off. In my haste I forgot Psycho Sam but only realized this after I pulled into the Starbucks parking lot. At this point I wasn't about to go home to get him so decided to take my chances.

BIG MISTAKE! On this particular night I was finally mugged. So now I'm out a laptop, my wallet, my watch, a nice jacket, my Crazy Black Red Streak Clubbing Wig and of course the Hacked USB Flash drive. I'll give said drive two stars for being a working Flash drive (while I owned it). It loses three; one because it didn't keep me from being mugged, one for being too expensive and one lack of an identifying mark. Why couldn't they just put a red dot on the darned thing at the factory? If they had, probably not of this would have happened. Ugh!