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Published: Friday 08 October 2004
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Robert Campbell
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Newcastle Upon Tyne
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IT Consultant
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Well actually no, the BIOS can be re-set and the protection removed, in most cases a good old fdisk /MBR will kill off any HDD encryption software.
What's really needed is the wider implementaion of the TPM Trusted Computing Initiative modules, such as now available on IBM and some HP lap-tops [and servers]. This prevents hardware changes being made e.g. HDD being swapped between PC's. It's all to do with a PKCS#11 device embedded on the motherboard you see.
Biometric protection? Can anybody direct me toward...
Justin Wheatley
Justin, there are some laptops on the market with ...
Ruprecht
What you deploy against this all really depends up...
Robert Campbell
Well actually no, the BIOS can be re-set and the p...
Robert Campbell
Rule of thumb: if they have unrestrained physical ...
Anonymous
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