On Wednesday 17 August 2005 16:15, Baldur Sigurpsson wrote: > >>Indeed, very secure. If I've physical access to your laptop, all I > >>need is a screwdriver to open it, pull out the disk and connect it > >>to another machine.
The disk password is part of the ATA interface spec. I would like you to actually try your thought experiment of setting the password on a laptop drive, then moving the drive to another laptop, and then trying to read the contents of the drive without supplying the password. Let me know if it works.