Seagate announces hardware FDE for laptop and desktop machines

[ji at tla.org]

Dave Korn wrote:
> On 07 September 2007 21:28, Leichter, Jerry wrote:
> 
>> Grow up.  *If* the drive vendor keeps the mechanism secret, you have
>> cause for complaint.  But can you name a drive vendor who's done
>> anything like that in years?  
> 
>   All DVD drive manufacturers.  That's why nobody could write a driver for
> Linux until CSS was cracked, remember?
> 

It wasn't the mechanism that was secret so much as the key.  CSS was 
supposed to protect someone else's data.  You wouldn't give the key to 
*your* drive away, would you?

/ji

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