On Tue, 13 Jul 2010, Michael J. Mahon wrote:
Passport disks can be deprotected with considerable effort. They have a novel, multi-level protection scheme involving lots of "misdirection" and encryption, all keyed by a very clever scheme of resetting the disk controller with precise timing to allow normally unsynced nibbles to be read.
This doesn't exactly fill me with hope... :(
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