On Thu, 18 Jun 2009, Sridhar Ayengar wrote:
It could probably be reformatted by the user, but that
precludes
retrieval of any of the data. I'm not completely sure, but I would
guess that the method it uses is to encrypt the partition table. It
sure seems that way.
If THAT's all that they did, what's stopping someone from simply rewriting
the partition table - 20 years ago, that was FDISK /MBR
What OS are we talking about?
For example,
NT4 just sets a flag that tells windoze not to access it without password;
but booting Linux provides full access to a password "protected" NT4,
including ability to wipe the password flag.