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Self-Wiping Hard Drives From Toshiba
Orome1 writes "Toshiba announced a family of self-encrypting hard disk drives engineered to automatically invalidate protected data when connected to an unknown host. Data invalidation attributes can be set for multiple data ranges, enabling targeted data in the drive to be rendered indecipherable by command, on power cycle, or on host authentication error."
No you haven't. Your data is still there. Just don't be doing anything foolish like trying to access it.
Finally, Write-Only Memory becomes mainstream.
Self wiping drives - I had a few of those YEARS ago. They had the added feature that when they were erasing themselves,they alerted the user via a loud screeching sound.
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Nerds with baseball bats in a field... what could possibly go wrong?
Laptop theft is at an all time low. In unrelated news, kidnappings are on the rise.
A bad blocks scan at the weekend showed my year-old Toshiba hard drive has invalidated at least a hundred sectors so far.
Self wiping drives, what could possibly go wrong? But it should also be noted that Western Digital has been making self wiping drives for years, although they are not as selective or precise about when they wipe your data.
I'm an American. I love this country and the freedoms that we used to have.