Yes and don't forget..the middle east won't be a source of enemies
-forever-...what'll we do with all those weapons? Ah yes...the Chinese are
apparently on the backburner.
-TD
From: Dave Howe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: Email List: Cypherpunks <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Le no-no
Date: Tue, 01 Feb 2005 01:11:38 +0000
Tyler Durden wrote:
Huh? There are IBM laptops with dedicated crypto chips? Although I don't
claim to be any kind of an expert, I think this has to be wrong. Anyone
know any different?
well, certainly some thinkpads have encryption of the hard drive; if you
take the hard drive out and try to read it on another system, you find the
drive contains garbage - if and only if you have a bios and startup
password set. the same password is used for both startup access and drive
encryption.
I suspect it is more that they are looking for a reason to block this sale,
and this is the first one they thought of. exactly why they would like to
do this is beyond me - possibly MS would like IBM to still be tied to them
by Windows contracts, or possibly just someone in government doesn't like
the idea of "THE IBM PC" being a chinese company.
