Security hole

[Wolfgang S. Rupprecht]

Thomas Cameron <thomas.cameron at camerontech.com> writes:
> But if someone can lay hands on your machine, all they need to do is
> pop the drive and they own your data.

Some drives have ATA commands to password protect the disk.  This
password needs to be entered each time the disk is powered on and
without it the disk refuses to honor most disk commands.  Its not as
good as cryptographically protecting your data, but it should prevent
anyone from casually booting from alternate media and reading or even
modifying your whole filesystem.

-wolfgang
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