So your pocket decided to empty its self on the way to work. What was in there? A wallet, a set of keys, a memory stick? Ten years ago the worst case scenario would be that your wallet would be found with the cash removed and your car 5 minutes down the road in a ditch.Bad enough you say, but in this digital age there's much more at stake. Lets say for one minute that your USB stick had personal files on it that could reveal information about you including your address, family members or other personal details. This is more than enough information for someone to start thinking about stealing your identity. Or how about if you use your USB stick for portable applications such as Firefox? Did you use it to access your bank account, your email account or social networking sites. Did you tick that 'Remember Password' box? Now you're in a serious situation.But its not only your personal data that's at risk. How about that presentation or proposal you've been working on for your employer? Or maybe that spreadsheet of employee details. A password set on the file isn't going to stop a determined hacker from getting at the information. You need encryption.The most common method of encrypting storage is by means of a software based application that installed on the host machine. In the case of portable drives, the software encrypts the drive and copies the necessary applications to the drive so that it can be accessed from any machine providing that you have the correct password or certificate key.This method has its downfalls though, most prominent being that the applications placed on the drive to decrypt it may not work on systems such as Mac OS X or Linux. Additionally the whole process can be quite confusing to users who maybe aren't so tech savvy and "just want to get at their data".Enter the Corsair Flash Padlock 2. Successor to the original Flash Padlock drive (which wasn't very secure at all), the Flash Padlock 2 builds on the predecessors basic keycode access idea by adding a strong 256Bit AES encryption mechanism. Here's what Corsair have to say: