Subject: Re: security issue: hard disk lock
From: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
To: Jonas Diemer <diemer@gmx.de>
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On Llu, 2005-04-11 at 17:01, Jonas Diemer wrote:
> Yes, but a new video-card or Motherboard can be easily bought (although it 
> costs), but the data on a locked disk is lost forever, unless you pay for 
> professional recovery (which is also a time-issue, if time critical data is 
> stored on the disk). Of course, this can be solved with a good backup 
> strategy...

It still causes great inconvenience I agree. 

> I agree with you though, that this really isn't a kernel issue, but a BIOS 
> thing. Distributors should/could provide additional security by freezing the 
> security-features early during boot, until BIOS vendors do their homework.

Its really for Jeff and Bartlomiej to call but I'd certainly not be
opposed to freezing the security state in the kernel at boot by default.

Alan

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