Monday, October 30, 2006

Seagate to Encrypt Data on Hard Drives

An AP newswire article by May Wong, via USA Today, reports that:

Seagate Technology hopes its new security system for the hard drive will become the most formidable barrier between computer data and thieves.

The world's largest hard drive maker says its DriveTrust Technology, to be announced Monday, automatically encrypts every bit of data stored on the hard drive and requires users to have a key, or password, before being able to access the disk drive.

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