On 28 May 2003 at 3:07, The Fool wrote: > Phoenix wants to be able to track, disable, wipe hard drives, connect > to the internet, download advertising, 'secure' sections of your > harddrive, without your permission: They can literally destroy your > computer / HD data ay ANY time they choose. Suppose a hacker hacks > their system? That hacker or virus could destroy millions of peoples > machines.
*sniffs* Ah yes, the sweet smell of misunderstanding. For one thing, without direct BIOS access you can't do that - and the way windows works that's not possible (a hacker triggering it) from within the OS itself*. (*certain old laptops excluded) I myself use a similar program although it has to interface with the NT kernel at startup rather than being based in the BIOS. So a BIOS version WOULD be nice. Still, the guy who nicked my laptop was caught. The data thing I understand as well, I have data on this hard disk which I'm uinder NDA about and/or I consider confidential. While much of it is encrypted, someone with time could crack the (unfortunately weak) encryption. This is a control issue - even the people who I pay for the guardian software can't activate it without the code only I know. Andy Dawn Falcon _______________________________________________ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
