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| Boulware5 2003-07-30, 4:09 pm |
| Abit's new motherboard IC7-MAX3 includes an encryption system for IDE hard disks.
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.
Not a bad idea.  | |
| Deja-vue 2003-07-30, 4:34 pm |
| Excellent Idea!
See this Thread
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| Tarzanboy 2003-07-30, 9:13 pm |
| Essentially the idea here is no different than running EFS on a Win2k/XP/2k3 system. The largest question I have is that since it is encrypting the contents of the drive, what kind of hit are you looking at as far as delays between requesting data and displaying the results of the request or saving data to the drive? Then comes the question of what percentage of drive space is going to be taken up with the encryption itself?
To me, at least, it sounds like a bit of a gimmick rather than a practical solution for the average user.
If the drive is accessible by you and you are accessing the Internet, it is likely for someone to look at and maybe even fetch the contents of your encrypted drive. If the government came to your house looking for evidence, they're going to take more than your hard drive.
For businesses or government agencies it becomes a little more practical, as asset theft (stealing a drive) often can translate into data theft.
Cheers,
TB | |
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| No quite TB
From my understanding the encryption is controlled by a chip on the MoBo. using that as a premise and doing a little investigation I surmise that even authorised remote control may be an issue. That being the case it would be good to stop external threats, but could be a problem for network admin. Could also be a big problem if your board dies and you have data you need to recover ... lol | |
| Tarzanboy 2003-07-31, 2:52 am |
| You might be right about the remote accessibility, much like Microsoft states EFS is.
I would be interested in seeing how the motherboard would differentiate between a request from the system and someone who has accessed the computer remotely and is acting as a system account.
Cheers,
TB | |
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| I'll let you know dood. I asked my supplier to obtain one for me to replace the BX133 in my workshop machine. | |
| Tarzanboy 2003-07-31, 4:42 am |
| Sounds like a sweet upgrade.
Cheers,
TB | |
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| Not as good as my main machine, but da-am I can't afford that too often ... lol.
Really interested in this board and if it runs well I might swap it into my main machine is everything fits. | |
| Tarzanboy 2003-07-31, 3:05 pm |
| Even without the IDE encryption the board sounds pretty sweet. Good luck with it.
Cheers,
TB | |
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