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The Always-Encrypted Firewire Hard Drive

Posted by timothy on from the only-terrorists dept.

ducman points to the announcement of an encrypted hard drive running on the MacNN website. The drive features a DES 64-bit/ 40bit key strength and "is intended for use by banks, insurance providers, government agencies, and those individuals with sensitive digital intellectual property. It supports the IEEE 1394a connectivity standard, in addition to USB 1.1 and 2.0. It offers data transfer rates over FireWire 400 of 100, 200, or 400 Mbps. The SuperGuard is expected to be available February 7." Sounds great -- but the USB key stuck in the back looks like a likely point of failure.

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  1. Uh.. who cares? Columbia is gone. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Jeez people.

    1. Re:Uh.. who cares? Columbia is gone. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

      Indeed: Who cares? Seven people died... compared to over a hundred people who die every day as a result of traffic accidents.

    2. Re:Uh.. who cares? Columbia is gone. by Sgs-Cruz · · Score: 0, Offtopic

      Come on man, you could do better than that (from September 15th 2001). At least put some creativity into pretending that people aren't allowed to talk about anything else just because a tragedy happened.

      --

      Karma: pi (Mostly due to circular reasoning in posts).

    3. Re:Uh.. who cares? Columbia is gone. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

      Columbia is gone

      Uh.. who cares? Thousands of people die of starvation around the world every day.

      Works both ways.

    4. Re:Uh.. who cares? Columbia is gone. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

      But those people are poor, and poor people suck.

  2. phusssht poasht!! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    LOL, got it. I am l33t!! you all suX0r.

  3. Re:Excuse me? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    ur so innocent, so naive!! can we exchange bodily phluidz??? i got gonorrhea.

    love,
    xxx

  4. Re:Excuse me? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    But why are you complaining about a falling stock market, the RIAA, etc when there are terrorists on the loose killing innocent Americans! Sept 11th was one of the WORST things that happened to America, and all you want to talk about is petty little things like copyrights, personal freedom and the economy.

  5. Re:don't forget... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic
    As a tribute to the potentially lost crew, We shall increase spending on Space exloration with the goal of establishing a permanent colony on Mars by 2013, the ten year anniversery of this tragedy.

    These men and women of the shuttle Columbia loved space and space exploration. There can be nothing better we may do to give honour to this tragedy than to give their fellow colleagues the chance at manning serious space exploration. THANK YOU> A Good Troll is better than a Bad Human.

  6. Get your Columbia Tragedy domains here... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Jeez.. what some people try to do for a buck:

    http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&it em =3400150082&category=11153

  7. Shuttle videos - Please save and create mirrors... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Offtopic, but during this time of tragedy, I have uploaded a couple of clips of space shuttle breaking up for /. readers:

    SHUTTLE VIDEOS

    PLEASE SAVE THESE (right click and select "Save Target As" on IE) AND CREATE MIRRORS:

    Shuttle breaking up (clip 1 of 2)

    Shuttle breaking up (clip 2 of 2)

    Hourly Bandwidth limited Mirror:
    http://www.geocities.com/koodakabaada/ShuttleBre ak ingUp_1of2.rm

    http://www.geocities.com/koodakabaada/ShuttleBre ak ingUp_2of2.rm