-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 2012-08-07 19:49, Greg Freemyer wrote:
On Tue, Aug 7, 2012 at 7:19 AM, Carlos E. R. <> wrote:
I would like to know of people using this feature, that they tell their experiences with it...
The ATA security feature is a access control feature, not a encryption feature.
Ah! That was my most important doubt.
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.
I don't recall ever seeing ATA access control used on a desktop computer or on an external disk, and I see a few hundred client drives each year (lots of random clients, so it's a reasonable sample.).
Interesting. But it can be used, anyway, can it? A friend of mine used some software to erase a disk, and aparently it used the security delete feature with password. He got tired of waiting, killed the software, and the disk was not usable. Fortunately restarting that software got around it, the password they used was fixed and published (or hacked, I don't remember)
fyi: to bypass the access control is not trivial, but there are definitely commercial tools you can buy to do it (~$10K per my understanding) or you can have a data recovery company do it as a service. (Not sure what they charge).
A fair bit, surely. - -- Cheers / Saludos, Carlos E. R. (from 12.1 "Asparagus" GM (bombadillo)) -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.18 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ iEYEARECAAYFAlAhWMYACgkQU92UU+smfQVcfwCbB2o55YuI5zlIHRGRSaYLQZZI J6IAn1A3EkDV+14l8ht6mhZ4FN7jQ5d1 =QKXQ -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org