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Seagate Ships World's Most Secure Hard Drive
An anonymous reader writes to let us know that after two years Seagate is finally shipping its full-disk encryption product, and you can get your hands on it in a laptop from system vendor ASI.
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it will transpire that ...Los Alamos National Laboratory misplaced a notebook full of top-secret data in which the encryption had never been turned on... ...a Microsoft executive lost a notebook full of plans for dirty ways to undermine Open Source, after sticking Post-It note to the screen to remind him of his wife's birthday, which he used as his password... ...all the scientific data from a major NASA mission costing $1.63 billion were stored on a contractor's laptop, who had encrypted all of it, chosen a good password, never wrote it down, and got hit by a bus without telling it to anyone... ...but NASA was able to recover the data by asking the FBI, which knew the backdoor and had been reading every NASA contractor's hard drive without a warrant.
"How to Do Nothing," kids activities, back in print!
Or the terrorists will win by stealing our porn so we can't watch it and start to fear it!
...I thought so!
What will you tell your children when you are afraid of porn because there is no porn left because it was stolen and consumed by terrorists because of insecure harddrives???
It's called /dev/null
/dev/null isn't technically a hard drive, but then I'd have no joke, so work with me here!)
Granted, getting data back is a bit, erm, difficult, but write only memory? That's pretty damn secure.
(And anticipating witty responses... I will accept that
> require the OS to supply the password at some interval to a write-only memory.
Sounds really useful. From what I hear, write-only memory is about as cryptographically secure as it comes.
You're right I'll wait until China produces one. There's a government I trust.
I don't need no instructions to know how to rock!!!!
Um, it exists. Basically you put memory behind a controller which does not allow reads from a given bus. Hence, write only.
NEWBIE!
Someday, I'll have a real sig.
For the tinfoil community, simply create a circuit to short-cut the battery (or any other low-power incendiary device) in case of wrong password and use a Sony laptop to be able to claim bad luck when the FBI ask you to enter your PW.
My highspeed, large-capacity Seagate drive wasn't secure from itself when it decided to critically fail 1 week after warrenty!