-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA256 On 2015-07-24 14:06, greg.freemyer@gmail.com wrote:
Here's a post about hacking Seagate drives to determine the ata password: http://hackaday.com/2013/11/29/bypassing-seagate-ata-security-lock/
Here's the code: https://github.com/BlackLotus/seaget
I gather you need a special cable to connect your PC's serial port (rs-232) to the drive's serial interface pins, then this code interrogates the drive and simply grabs a data buffer that has the password in plain text embedded.
Wow! :-o So not safe at all... - -- Cheers / Saludos, Carlos E. R. (from 13.1 x86_64 "Bottle" (Minas Tirith)) -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.22 (GNU/Linux) iF4EAREIAAYFAlWyLDgACgkQja8UbcUWM1z20wD/Ug/JPDp3IMaeBELgZO5i3piD EM0z0avmxlaUHDUdqO4A/Rpk0EC8vqUdkP10oPGHfIxpkCUAa0bOMO4etUwMS4gb =7ynq -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org