Keep hackers and the RIAA out of your PC?? Coooooool!!

[TommyHolly]

I read this from a link over at ExtremeOverclockers.com

For MAX3, the ABIT Engineers listened to users who were asking for information security. SecureIDE connects to your IDE hard disk and has a special decoder; without a special key, your hard disk cannot be opened by anyone. Thus hackers and would be information thieves cannot access your hard disk, even if they remove it from your PC. Protect your privacy and keep anyone from snooping into your information. Lock down your hard disk, not with a password, but with encryption. A password can be cracked by software in a few hours. ABIT's SecureIDE will keep government supercomputers busy for weeks and will keep the RIAA away from your Kazaa files.

That's right! Keep them laywers away from my KaZaA LiTe files.

[dynamodaimyo]

Yeah, I read about this on the front page of overclockers.com.
http://overclockers.com/articles782/
but apparently it will be useless against the RIAA.

[Crash893]

im not entirely sure i understand

is the encryption done from the hardware level

if so how is the key stored

if its on the software level how is the ide drive accesed with out seeing the key in the first place

or is it a password

that would be a main pain in the ass if you had to enter a password for every read and write to your hdd

i was thinking about getting something like this

edit well poo i cant find it now but its a usb token that your usb slot then you run the software that encrypts the hard drive and and the token is the key basicly

if you take the usb token out then your drive is already encrypted

[TheGhengisKhan]

how about a link?

[ThePerfectCore]

How will that protect you from (UMWTF)*? You share files, RIAA downloads files. You go to jail and/or pay bigass fine.

Where does the encrpytion part go OHWAITITDOESN'TKTHX.

*Alright, that's it. I am now convinced that someone goes around editing my messages to make me look like an idiot.

[FireMogle]

edit:

[Aslan]

Sounds just like a marketing gimmick to me. If you get caught sharing by the RIAA, then no hard drive encryption is going to help you....

[InThrees]

It's all silly anyway.

The encryption / decryption only happens between the hard drive controller and the drive.

That means any file you download is not encrypted until it reaches the hard drive controller.

Any file you're sharing isn't encrypted once it leaves the controller.

Effectively, in normal use, the files ARE NOT ENCRYPTED, until the hard drive is physically removed and connected to a different controller.

[Cowboy Shane]

The key is stored on a usb keyring device. You have to plug it in to access your files.
Originally posted by FireMogle
And you do realize any encryption in the US has to have a key so police types can get into it, right?
Care to post a link to that? I know that's something that has been debated, but I was unaware it had become law.

[glock19owner]

Originally posted by FireMogle
And you do realize any encryption in the US has to have a key so police types can get into it, right?

Tell PGP and a few other encryption programers this...That would be like hanging your spare key to your front door...right on the door :rolleyes:

[TheGhengisKhan]

can I get a link to this encryption stuff, not for the RIAA stuff, but more to prevent hackers.

[FireMogle]

Last statement retracted, I was reading alot of stuff and mixed and matched encryption laws together, forming an evil *******-child of a law. My apologies.