Thus it was written in the epistle of Steve Dirickson,
> > Found this article http://www.hfxnews.southam.ca/story4.html
> > on a new lap
> > top security method. I don't know how it works but it sure looks
> > interesting.
>
> I think it's significant that he claims that their protection
> "survives [the format] process." I doubt that it would survive a
> low-level format of the drive (which requires special equipment) or
> FDISK /MBR (which anyone can do).

I don't know about the low-level format, but I once got attacked by a virus
whic IIRC survived an fdisk /mbr.  It didn't, however, survive having linux
installed on the drive :-).

Ted
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