7 Aug
2012
7 Aug
'12
18:30
On Tue, Aug 7, 2012 at 2:04 PM, Carlos E. R.
I have seen it used on laptops a number of times, but in general if a company wants to have their info encrypted, they don't use the ATA access control feature.
Make sense.
But it can be used as a deterrent against normal thieves, they can not sell the hardware as it costs a lot to recover.
Depends if they are stealing hardware or data. hdparm can clear the access control password, but it wipes the data in the process! So a diligent hardware thief has only a small inconvenience. For a data thief, it certainly is a deterrent. Greg -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org