24 Aug
2009
24 Aug
'09
12:10 a.m.
On 23 Aug 2009 at 11:24, Douglas Taylor wrote:
This thread jogged my memory on the subject, see the
following link on
how hard this can be.
http://sodoityourself.com/hacking-ibm-thinkpad-bios-password/
It's not a problem with the EEPROM in the Thinkpad BIOS--the drive
itself has locking and encryption (two-level: user and master).
Without the master password, the drive will not permit any operations
involving media access. IBM claims that if you lose the master
password, the drive is unusable; if you lose the user password, the
drive can be restored to use, but any user data lost.
I'm not aware that Teo was given anything but the Travelstar drive.
--Chuck