Seagate announces hardware FDE for laptop and desktop machines

[Florian Weimer]

* Simon Josefsson:

> One would assume that if you disable the password, the data would NOT be
> accessible.  Making it accessible should require a read+decrypt+write of
> the entire disk, which would be quite time consuming.  It may be that
> this is happening in the background, although it isn't clear.

Perhaps this section wasn't updated?  A password-based lock method is
present in most laptop drives today.

But this exhibits an issue with disk-based encryption: you can't
really know what they are doing, and if they are doing it right.
(Given countless examples of badly-deployed cryptography, this isn't
just paranoia, but a real concern.)

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