[Dailydave] Fwd: [FDE] Inside interview with Seagate on it's newFDE Drive

[Dave Korn]

On 10 January 2007 04:42, Saqib Ali wrote:

> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> From: Scott S <scott at u.washington.edu>
> 
> Here is an exclusive interview we conducted with Dan Good, Vice President
> of marketing at Seagate, on the release of its new FDE drives. Some of the
> topics covered in the interview are the catalyst that lead to the
> development of the FDE solution, the FDE drive value proposition, and the
> FDE drive positioning against its competitions and along its
> collaborators.
> 
> http://www.full-disk-encryption.net/seagate_interview.html


  Anyone else spot this daft piece of
promoting-security-by-obscurity-as-a-virtue?

"  We have hidden operation in the drive as well as hidden storage place that
normally can't be accessed via ATA commands. So in a way we have a bit of a
black box, in terms of a security device, that no one knows what is going on
in there, and it is a perfect place to hide stuff.  "

  I give it ten minutes after the drives hit the streets before it gets
cracked.


    cheers,
      DaveK
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