We finally found somebody at Sony who is willing to talk about its Microvault USB sticks, but we didn't get much wiser.

The product essentially tanked and was discontinued just before F-Secure found that it formed a security risk because of "modest sales". Sony is still investigating the security problems (the device compromises Windows security, offering malware a place to hid from anti virus software), and pending the investigation won't decide if will do a recall.

01 Sep 2007

A recall would still be useful to the dozen of consumers who required fingerprint authentication to store their data and were willing to shell out $62.99 for a 128MB model $99 or for the 256MB one.

Or we could help evolution a bit, weeding out people who fail to understand that free encryption software and a 1GB USB Flash drive that costs a mere $15 will yield the same result.