Date: Tue, 28 Mar 2006 00:38:56 +1100
From: Raymond <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: [LIB] BIOS password, protecting against thieves ..
>
> > I really don't care about my data because it's cloned but I really care
> > to make it useless to obligate the thief to return it for a reward.
BIOS password is easy to reset.
HD password isn't.
Throw the HD away and put a new one in there any you're away laughing.
Can't you just yank the hard drive, plug it into another box as a secondary
HDD (through an adapter of some sort) then zero out the MBR and whatnot
then repartition/reformat? I didn't think any HDD manufacturer was doing
security in the hard drive's controller ROM (which is where you'd need
something like HDD level security) ... of course, then you could always
swap controller boards ...
- Raymond
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