Cheap combination locks are generally a doddle to crack, by either physical or logical brute force. Besides, the determined data thief could just open the drive and bypass the connector altogether.

On the face of it a good developement although there is always a but. Surely, the best security is to keep the possibly offending flash drive in your pocket/brief case when it is not in use. I do not forsee any problem in hogging one USB outlet as there are several "multi" devices available, I have a seven outlet one myself, and these could be used in conjunction with other devices into infinity, and my computer has four outlets as well.

So here I stole this interestingly protected usb stick... but I can't plug it in do I

a) give up on it

b) take a screwdriver to it and dismantle it, desolder the original connector and

solder on a new one

I'll go with option b...

5 minutes later

Ahh so this is what the government has been up to...