Doug Hughes <d...@will.to> writes:
> 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.
....er, are you aware that one of the recovery techniques used by the
companies that do this stuff is to swap the electronics between drives?
> 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).
At least, last I checked they were going to charge me about $3,000 to do just
that in either Melbourne or Sydney, if they had appropriate hardware on hand.
More extensive recovery would be a little more, but not that much.
You /can/ make it harder, but either the vendors were lying to us, or this
isn't quite as delicate and fragile as you state here.
Daniel
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