My guess is that it will NEVER work, or that it will be hacked in a few
weeks. Besides, we all have hard drives with the 'old' specs, so all we
will have to do is probably keep one of them as secondary unit. I am not
worried at all.
Anki Toner
En/Na Steev Hise ha escrit:
>
> Wow, this is really REALLY bad news. Apparently proposed
> modifications to the IDE and SCSI specifications will result
> in each hard drive manufactured encrypting its data with
> its own unique key. This means digital copying of
> copyrighted material will be stopped *at the hardware
> level*. (This will also, by the way, screw up existing
> backup software)
>
> If this goes through it will happen by NEXT
> SUMMER. All new hard drives will have built-in copy
> protection!
>
> Of course, it might not work, and someone will probably
> figure out how to hack it. but it's still scary...
>
> http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/1/15620.html
>
> smh
>
> Steev Hise, Syssy Admin
> steevATdetritus.net http://detritus.net/steev
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