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Re: "Wild and Crazy": Interview with Palladium's Mario Juarez
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Antonomasia)
Tue Jul 2 19:27:08 2002
To: cryptography@wasabisystems.com, ji@research.att.com
Date: Tue, 2 Jul 2002 23:41:03 +0100 (BST)
From: ant@notatla.demon.co.uk (Antonomasia)
From: ji@research.att.com
> <pasward@shoshin.uwaterloo.ca> writes:
> > In other words, when the MB is fried because of some freak electrical
> > surge, I'm screwed, because I can't put the HD into another machine
> > and get the data off it?
>
> What's wrong with your backups? :-)
>
> This is like a problem Windows already has: if you move a disk onto
> different hardware, more often than not you can't boot because the
> wrong Hardware Adaptation Layer info is in the disk's boot sector. At
> least you can recover the data by mounting it as a second disk.
What's wrong is the backups are presumably encrypted in a way that requires
the cooperation of MS to read it on a machine other than the originator.
I'm not at all likely to become US president but if I were I'd consider
this an issue worth nuking Redmond for in office hours with no warning.
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