Date: Thu, 6 Oct 2005 14:58:57 +1000 From: Peter Clutton <peterclutton@gmail.com> To: Kirk Strauser <kirk@strauser.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Hidden spot on hard drives? Message-ID: <57416b300510052158s6d60a570h8c075109dbfac38e@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <200510052204.36883.kirk@strauser.com> References: <20051005184437.GA36369@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org> <200510052204.36883.kirk@strauser.com>
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On 10/6/05, Kirk Strauser <kirk@strauser.com> wrote: > On Wednesday 05 October 2005 01:44 pm, Jonathon McKitrick wrote: > > the company where I work (with Windows) is evaluating a copy protection > > product that stores info somewhere on the HDD where the [1] user cannot > > touch it, [2] a format will not erase it, [3] and Norton Ghost will not= find > > it. > > 1) No such animal. > 2) Ah - the bootblock, as others have mentioned. > 3) Of course, that doesn't say anything about Ghost v$(current + 1). > > To be blunt, your vendor is lying to you. I'm not quite so unbelieving. I mean there are always ways to get at data, hell, you could just rip the drive out and take a hex image. But that isn't the point. There are software and hardware devices which can do this for you, and thei= r claim could be true to a certain extent. There are a few other places to hide data: servo tracks, and tracks where data about bad sectors are kept, but this sometimes requires hardware to write to it. Just my two cents on an interesting subject:)
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