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I remember so well the time I had to use a stack of 3.5 floppy disks at work so I can share a bunch of files with my colleagues and even then the file was split up over several disks. I so wish I had one of these 8GB USB babies then. Now, I can literally ditch the laptop and carry all my programs in that one tiny stick. So cool.
What’s not so cool is when you lose that drive. Good luck finding it. Looking for a USB drive can be like looking for a needle in the haystack. But perhaps more frustrating than that is the information you’ve lost with it. You definitely don’t want any Tom Dick or Harry to be going through your stuff. Personally, even if the data isn’t particularly sensitive in nature, I don’t like the idea of people looking at my pictures, notes or digital products that I paid good money for.
Some of the newer drives like IronKey and Sandisk Enterprise come with encryption and security built in. You’re probably better off simply getting one of those if you regularly carry sensitive data with you.
For drives that don’t have this built in you can try TrueCrypt. Another one you can try is also Rohos Mini Drive.
If you do this, make sure you add a plain text un-encrypted file that includes your name and basic contact info so whoever who finds it, if they are so inclined are at least able to reach you to send it back. Or, you can try engraving it 
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