On Thursday 18 August 2005 10:16, Timothy Donahue wrote: > The only way to recover information off of a disk that has the ata security > password protection implemented correctly is to transplant the platters into > another disk (of the same type).
The c't article, the link to which I posted to misc@ yesterday, stated that a data recovery company was able to retrieve the user disk password (set by the authors of the article) from the disk, aparently without opening (and thus voiding the warranty of) the disk. This statement, if true, would contracdict your assertion. I do believe that your assertion will become true in the future. > IIRC, if the security spec is implemented > correctly then just changing the external controller is not enough to allow > the password to be bypassed and swapping the platters into another disk is > not a trivial task. It is not encrypted, but the controller will refuse to > read information off of the disk. > > Tim Donahue
