Abit boldly announced SecureIDE as a feature with their new moherboard IC7-MAX3, which Abit claims will help you keep the RIAA away. Here is what they have announced:"For MAX3, the ABIT Engineers listened to users who were asking for information security. SecureIDE connects to your IDE hard disk and has a special decoder; without a special key, your hard disk cannot be opened by anyone."
"Thus hackers and would be information thieves cannot access your hard disk, even if they remove it from your PC. Protect your privacy and keep anyone from snooping into your information. Lock down your hard disk, not with a password, but with encryption. A password can be cracked by software in a few hours. ABIT's SecureIDE will keep government supercomputers busy for weeks and will keep the RIAA away from your Kazaa files." For more PR talk on the other features warp 2 Abit.com.tw But Ed Stroligo @ Overclockers.com says the following on the supposed "lock out RIAA" claim: "1) Locks don't work when you leave the front door open. This device will encrypt your hard drive. Fine. All that means is that your computer (whether through a dedicated chip or a CPU) is going to be doing a whole lot of decrypting to do anything, including communications with the outside world. If you use a P2P network, share a drive and your system is set up to decrypt the information, this does absolutely nothing to stop an RIAA and Company scan." I recommend you read the article by Ed here: Overclockers.com and decide for yourself.
"Thus hackers and would be information thieves cannot access your hard disk, even if they remove it from your PC. Protect your privacy and keep anyone from snooping into your information. Lock down your hard disk, not with a password, but with encryption. A password can be cracked by software in a few hours. ABIT's SecureIDE will keep government supercomputers busy for weeks and will keep the RIAA away from your Kazaa files." For more PR talk on the other features warp 2 Abit.com.tw But Ed Stroligo @ Overclockers.com says the following on the supposed "lock out RIAA" claim: "1) Locks don't work when you leave the front door open. This device will encrypt your hard drive. Fine. All that means is that your computer (whether through a dedicated chip or a CPU) is going to be doing a whole lot of decrypting to do anything, including communications with the outside world. If you use a P2P network, share a drive and your system is set up to decrypt the information, this does absolutely nothing to stop an RIAA and Company scan." I recommend you read the article by Ed here: Overclockers.com and decide for yourself.
