-------- In message <[email protected]>, Henry Baker writes:
>BTW, what's the point of AES encryption on this pre-p0wned device? >More security theatre? > >http://hothardware.com/reviews/samsung-portable-ssd-t1-review It's so that you can decommision the drive without destroying it. Pulverizing electronics gets you hazardous waste under EU's ROHS/WEEE rules. Throwing away the AES key gives you run-of-the-mill electronic garbage. -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 [email protected] | TCP/IP since RFC 956 FreeBSD committer | BSD since 4.3-tahoe Never attribute to malice what can adequately be explained by incompetence. _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-security To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[email protected]"
