On Sun, 2006-05-14 at 09:19 +0100, Adam Bower wrote:
No, it's far more secure than unlocking a mobile phone. To unlock a locked disk you need to /really/ know what you're doing and there aren't that many people who are capable of doing it. The support is built into the disk and the passwords are saved on the physical disk, and you can't bypass it as when the disk spins up it reads the password protected area and won't do anything else until you supply the password. Even swapping the platters into a new disk won't work as it'll start up see the disk is locked and ignore you until you supply a password.
That's neat... I'll turn that on as well. I kinda figured it would be dead easy to bypass that, but what you write makes a lot of sense.
Thanks for the advice. I still want to encrypt things, longer term. But this gives me piece of mind for the mean time...
Regards, Richard.