30 Sep
2008
30 Sep
'08
6:52 p.m.
On Tue, Sep 30, 2008 at 11:29 AM, Monty J. Harder [email protected] wrote:
Drives with this technology could be marketed as having "Secure Deletion" capabilities, and easily command premium prices. Wouldn't you gladly pay $10 more for a drive that can wipe sectors so well that even the spooks would get nothing out of them?
Absolutely not. I would be highly suspicious of using any such drive for my hypothetical criminal activity, as a drive marketed as having SD features might /really/ have some kind of covert channel phone-home-to-Echelon feature allowing the spooks to 0wn the box remotely. Perhaps interfacing with the pc-speaker-as-microphone feature.
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