Comments on: Titanium “Liquidmetal” USB Thumbdrive [4GB] http://danielmiessler.com/blog/titanium-liquidmetal-usb-thumbdrive-4gb grep understanding Thu, 18 Mar 2010 04:37:26 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Jason Powell http://danielmiessler.com/blog/titanium-liquidmetal-usb-thumbdrive-4gb/comment-page-1#comment-7064 Jason Powell Thu, 31 Aug 2006 18:46:32 +0000 http://dmiessler.com/archives/899#comment-7064 <p>There's an obvious problem to putting the keychain attachment on the drive itself rather than the cap: your keys remain attached to the drive. This'd be a problem if the port is in a tight place, like the back of the computer, or if you need your keys for something else while you need the drive plugged in.</p> <p>I think there's an obvious solution, too: put a secure fixture on the drive that will detach via some manipulation from your keychain. Something spring-loaded and small, like a <a href="http://www.answers.com/topic/carabiner" rel="nofollow">carabiner</a>. If you had a small carabiner permanently attached to the drive that could quickly pop off your keychain (but otherwise stay reliably attached), it'd solve the problem perfectly.</p> There’s an obvious problem to putting the keychain attachment on the drive itself rather than the cap: your keys remain attached to the drive. This’d be a problem if the port is in a tight place, like the back of the computer, or if you need your keys for something else while you need the drive plugged in.

I think there’s an obvious solution, too: put a secure fixture on the drive that will detach via some manipulation from your keychain. Something spring-loaded and small, like a carabiner. If you had a small carabiner permanently attached to the drive that could quickly pop off your keychain (but otherwise stay reliably attached), it’d solve the problem perfectly.

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