Re: Hard Drive Destruct System?

From: Bill Unruh (unruh_at_string.physics.ubc.ca)
Date: 11/28/04 

Date: 28 Nov 2004 19:24:05 GMT

unruh location:string.physics.ubc.ca (Bill Unruh) writes:

]adykes@panix.com (Al Dykes) writes:
]]What motivation would IBM have to lie about this ? If they had the
]]capaility to recover data and used it for some customer the fact would
]]get out and they'd look like fools, and the other corproate customers
]]that bought these systems would be looking for another brand, on the
]]spot.

Motivation? How about the govenment-- "Make damn sure that you build in a
password recovery system that we can use, or watch all your gov't contracts
disappear". I would say that the probability of password recovery is 100%.

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