protection on IoMega ZIP drives

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On Fri, 22 Mar 1996, Joseph L. Moll wrote:

> This is in regard to the now popular ZIP disks, the removable 100MB
> cartridge for PC's/MAC's.
> 
> Anyone have any idea how secure the ZIP disk is once it is "protected?"  I
> know that the disk will refuse to be mounted without the passkey, but what
> is really happening here?

Not much.

Use CryptDisk, shareware from Mr. W. Price.

I believe the current version is 1.1.3
Much more secure.

> 
> 
> Best Regards,
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> Joseph (Joe) L. Moll  mailto:jmoll at acquion.com
> Network/Communications Engineering
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> Acquion, Inc.  Greenville, SC  USA -- Specialists in Electronic Commerce
> 
> 

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