Seagate Ships World's Most Secure Hard Drive 148
An anonymous reader writes to let us know that after two years Seagate is finally shipping its full-disk encryption product, and you can get your hands on it in a laptop from system vendor ASI.
Worlds most secure? (Score:2, Interesting)
Is this really any more secure than dm-crypt? Faster, no doubt, but more secure?
Backdoored? (Score:5, Interesting)
Who knows what this thing is doing inside? They're using AES-128 so you may not have to worry about the encryption algo being unsecure, but who's to say this thing isn't caching the password in some place you don't know about (but that the manufacturer and your country's authorities do)?
Re:Worlds most secure cipher meet ... (Score:3, Interesting)
Re:Worlds most secure cipher meet ... (Score:3, Interesting)
Take all these shops that you have to sign up with before buying something, all they store is your address, your email address, your email and on rare occasions order history (the ones that also store credit cards are a different matter but those are less common and I'm not talking about those here)
Why should I use one of my more secure passwords? I dont like to change passwords too often - it means writing them down.
I also dont want to use one of my more secure ones (8-16 char upper lower number and other chars) if there is a good chance they are going to be in plain text on the other side.
So I use something trivial - and I use it on any site where I could not care if someone guesses my password for my email address and finds the same information for me thats listed on whois look ups, half a dozen websites and the phone book!
On sites that store sensitive information I have other passwords which are much more secure, but I have a separate set that I use within my trusted area - ie servers either I control or I kow the person that controls them so I know how they are stored, I don't overlap the two.
But yes trivial passwords have their place - ie when you are being asked for a password for something you really could not care less about and they are probably only wanting a password for tracking purposes