Hardware security in PCs to accompany new Windows

[Peter]

On Thu, 19 May 2005, Lennart Sorensen wrote:

> I really doubt they will convince the drive makers to do it.  MS needed
> to get a harddisk with custom firmware made for the xbox to do excatly
> that kind of lockdown, while I am sure they would love to have had the
> ATA DRM proposal pass so they could have used stock drives instead.  Too
> bad for microsoft.

I think that you do not realise that all hdds and practically all 
intelligent devices nowadays have flash memory. The 'custom firmware' is 
a version of the firmware that was flashed for them by the factory. If 
you pay enough money you can special order a lot of things.

Peter
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