At 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> 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?
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?
Why prompt, you installed it, just have the startup stop at a certain point, just simply pause. You hit a couple keys (4-8) and go on. Given this case you don't really need the security of a long passphrase since if they are looking to get in, you've lost already. -- petro@playboy.com----for work related issues. I don't speak for Playboy. petro@bounty.org-----for everthing else. They wouldn't like that. They REALLY Economic speech IS political speech. wouldn't like that.