Digital Dead Drops - Kingston Wi-Drive

As a kid I used to love spy movies. Hell I still love good spy movies and novels. Being a security geek I have given a lot of thought to dead drops, and digital dead drops in particular. Not just because of how they can change the outcome of a story but because I am sometimes tasked with preventing a possible covert exchange of information, forensically prove one took place or *gasp* steal some information and transfer it without being detected.

Few months ago the Kingston Wi-Drive (http://www.kingston.com/us/usb/wireless) caught my attention and I ordered the 32GB model and have been using it for the last 3 months.

The drive capacity isn't super impressive but more than sufficient for a typical dead drop or just some vacation pictures.

The drive does support encryption and plain text transport.

The battery life was excellent, so was battery capacity retention when left outside for 2 weeks in an alosak bag (granted this has been a wimpy al gore winter).

The profile is very sleep, fits well into jacket breast pocket, bag slash pocket, and can be easily attached with double sided tape under desks, benches or garbage cans.

The drive is not waterproof but that cab be easily solved with an alosak bag without sacrificing signal strength or by a small pelican case at the expense of some signal strength.

The drive does get a bit warm with large transfers but not terribly so.

The range is a bit of a sore point - it's slightly better than a verizon  miFi 2200 but not by much. i wouldn't want to be using this if I was going up against a sophisticated attacker with even consumer off the shelf DF equipment or directional antennas.

I wasn't brave enough to rip apart my unit but I would love for kingston to add an external antenna port to it or better yet a swing up antenna that can be unplugged/unscrewed and an aftermarket antenna plugged in/screwed in instead.
A removable/replaceable antenna or at least an additional charger port for a piggy back battery pack would be great to increase the drives on-station time.

Given the current price the drive is still a good buy, and has tons of great uses. The ipad and iphone software is quite stable and easy to work with. Only missing feature is remote wipe.