> Worse, there's a new "standard" being proposed for such drive > locking--which doesn't specify overrides or resets. I'm going to hate > this cr*p when clients come up and ask how to recover their data, > because they forgot their hard disk password... You can issue a security freeze to a drive to prevent it accepting any further password/security commands until power cycled. Really this needs to be a BIOS option but very few systems have BIOS support for it although there are some add on products. See hdparm --security-freeze ... Some day someone will write a fast spreading virus that locks a lot of hard disks and the vendors will think harder about the problem although I'm still hoping that they'll think about it *before* something bad happens as some of the BIOS and firmware people have. Alan -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
