this link: http://www.heise.de/ct/05/08/172/
describes how your hard disk could get locked with the ata security-feature. imagine that a virus or anything like that sets a password for your drives that you dont know. if u do an hdparm -I on your device you can see if that drive could get passworded or not. they will soon provide a patch for hdparm, so the drive security can be freezed at startup. they also sent a notification to the author of hdparm and he agreed to get that in in one of the future releases. the good thing is noone then could set a password until the drive resets or the pc reboots. sorry that this article is in german and my english is not good enough to describe the problem entirely. could someone plz help translating a bit? ;) its worth reading it. greetz -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-security FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/faq/ Unsubscribe: See the above information page
