Hello  Ed
   Actually my point was that password protecting a hard drive at any level
is like locking a door with bubble gum, anybody can gain entry with the
slightest push.  It would seem to me that encryption is the only real
protection given that the data is truly *that* valuable.  I didn't know
that firmware level password protection is common but considered that even
if it were it would still be childsplay to defeat.
Jimmy


> Harddisks in laptops are most often set with a password to protect the 
> data on them should the system be stolen. If you only have a cmos 
> password in the bios and someone steals the system to gain business data 
> and if they can simply take the disk out and put it into another system 
> to read it - things are very secure - the Bios password (which in many 
> cases used to be able to be reset by a strap on the motherboard anyway 
> (no longer so in recent laptops)) doesn't protect data on the harddisk.
> 
> Data on the harddisk can be further secured by encrypting it.
> 
> Cheers/2
> 
> Ed.
> 


 
Yahoo! Groups Links

 To visit your group on the web, go to:
    http://groups.yahoo.com/group/os2hardware/

 To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to:
    os2hardware-unsubscribe{at}yahoogroups.com

 Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to:
    http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
 




---