On Thursday 18 August 2005 11:19, Andrew Dalgleish wrote: > On Thu, Aug 18, 2005 at 10:28:45AM -0500, Dave Feustel wrote: > > 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. > > If I've stolen your laptop with the aim of stealing data, I'm not > too worried about voiding your warranty.
That will teach me to make an off-topic comment :-) > Personally I'd place more trust in OS-based encryption. > See vnconfig(1).
