On or about 8:16 PM -0500 9/21/98, Jim Choate wrote:
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Date: Tue, 22 Sep 1998 00:46:03 +0000 From: Michael Hohensee <mah248@is9.nyu.edu> Subject: Re: Stego-empty hard drives... (fwd)
I believe that the idea was to set it up so that BIOS defaults to HD-hiding mode.
How do you propose to do this? Via a BIOS setting?
Yes.
When you're taking your laptop through customs, you do nothing while the machine boots up, the doctored BIOS does its thing, and everybody's happy. When you want to get at the stuff on the rest of the HD, you reboot and type in your passphrase.
How do you propose to prompt the user for the correct time to type?
Pressing an obscure key combination during bootup to trigger the password prompt should do the trick. -Lazlo