Seagate bakes security into hard-disk drive

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Who else has the keys?

"Enterprises and other organizations will be able to manage passwords and encryption keys by using third-party software"

Other organizations = government organizations = key retrieval technology

There will no doubt be the ability to simply read off the drive serial number and produce a "super key" that will unlock the drive, the law enforcement agencies will see to that. Whether it is a hash algorithm or simply a codebook maintained by the drive vendor.

For that matter, the drive combined with the abilities of the Fritz chip could set up a "trusted path" via the Internet directly back to corporate or government servers that:

- enable/disable access to data on the drive without any user control
- remotely access data that you believe is secure without your knowledge or authorization
- remotely kill functions of software, the drive, or the entire computer.

This is another example of a company who decided to put a new processor and/or software with hidden functionality into my setup, where the functionality has little or no benefit to ME, but lots of benefit to THEM. Then they have the audacity to tell me I have to pay them EXTRA for it.

NO THANKS. If I want an encrypted drive, then I WILL BE RESPONSIBLE FOR MAKING IT HAPPEN, USING SOFTWARE OR HARDWARE I TRUST.

Posted by: terry flores   Posted on: 10/30/06 You are currently: a Guest | Members login | Terms of Use

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