Reading between the lines I think he has some sort of weird ass hardware coin wallet/high security encrypted flash drive that has some anti tamper smarts. I th

Reading between the lines I think he has some sort of weird ass hardware coin wallet/high security encrypted flash drive that has some anti tamper smarts. I think the journalist used the word encrypted wrong here: >Thomas has just two attempts left to guess the password before it's encrypted and lost forever. I suspect they meant the drive would wipe itself after another attempt. You could attempt to pull the controller chip and decap to extract the secondary key which would allow you unlimited attempts