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How does this stop a hacker using a backdoor as a VNC client and grabbing your data that way, unless they create an HDD-level hardware firewall too?]]>Nov 1st 2006 11:59AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/11/01/hitachi-to-offer-auto-encrypting-hybrid-notebook-hdds-in-2007/http://www.engadget.com/2006/11/01/hitachi-to-offer-auto-encrypting-hybrid-notebook-hdds-in-2007/Nov 1st 2006 1:06PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/11/01/hitachi-to-offer-auto-encrypting-hybrid-notebook-hdds-in-2007/http://www.engadget.com/2006/11/01/hitachi-to-offer-auto-encrypting-hybrid-notebook-hdds-in-2007/
It isn't designed to prevent access to compromised systems over the internet while they are on. It is intended to prevent people who physically steal a notebook from moving the drive to another computer, booting from an external drive and then viewing your information - without the overhead of software encryption. ]]>Nov 1st 2006 12:44PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/11/01/hitachi-to-offer-auto-encrypting-hybrid-notebook-hdds-in-2007/http://www.engadget.com/2006/11/01/hitachi-to-offer-auto-encrypting-hybrid-notebook-hdds-in-2007/Nov 1st 2006 2:01PM