Edward Ned Harvey wrote: > > The disadvantage of the HD pass is: You have to constantly enter the HD > pass. Every time you power-on, or wake up. The drive is not encrypted; > just locked. Which means data could be recovered from it by disassembling > it, or maybe by swapping the electronic circuit. Also, the HD pass would be > subject to a brute-force attack. If you lose your password, there's nothing > you can do about it. > > > Well, swapping the electronics will not help anybody. A modern drive is carefully factory calibrated with its particular electronics and heads. There is nothing that you can swap between drives to make them useful. (in fact, it is said that breaking the electronics on a drive is as good as crushing the drive for data protection from all but those with large resources, advanced, expensive electro-microscope technology and a lot of times on their hands). This is not necessarily true of Flash drives, however.
Modern spinning HDs are a miracle of electronics, heuristics and error correction. It's really a wonder that they work at all. The magnetic fields are so tiny and precise to get the density, and individual drive calibration is imperative. _______________________________________________ Tech mailing list [email protected] http://lopsa.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tech This list provided by the League of Professional System Administrators http://lopsa.org/
