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by vmoore 1515 days ago
> SanDisk, and Lexar provide encryption software for their USB keys, hard drives, and other storage products.

I'm someone who bought several Sandisk devices over the years. The first thing I do after buying and unboxing is setup LUKS[0] on the device with the Disks utility in Ubuntu. These USB flash drives usually ship with an `.exe` piece of 'security software' written to the disk, which I never execute because I don't trust their claims. I prefer battle-hardened and trusted things like LUKS, instead of proprietary products that use snake-oil terms like 'Military Grade'.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linux_Unified_Key_Setup