What is secure ide good for?

[Tret]

Pic of mobo

Also the sound on the motherboard should I keep or spend an extra 70 bucks for an audigy 2? And Will it be able to connect to a home theatre system?

 

[dighn]

that's nice looking mobo

 

[Tret]

The price sets you back at $225

 

[Ameesh]

why would your ide channel need to be secure, i have no idea what they are getting at.

edit: sounds like marketing BS

 

[ggavinmoss]

Originally posted by: Ameesh
why would your ide channel need to be secure, i have no idea what they are getting at.

edit: sounds like marketing BS

They might as well say "Now, harnessing the power of the atom!!!"

-geoff

 

[dartworth]

What is secure ide good for?


Well...it's secure...duhhh

 

[TMPadmin]

I have a secure floppy cable for ya!

 

[dabuddha]

Try doing some research.

http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=10769

"For MAX3, the ABIT Engineers listened
to users who were asking for information
security. SecureIDE connects to your IDE
hard disk and has a special decoder;
without a special key, your hard disk cannot
be opened by anyone. Thus hackers and
would be information thieves cannot access
your hard disk, even if they remove it from your
PC. Protect your privacy and keep anyone
from snooping into your information. Lock
down your hard disk, not with a password,
but with encryption. A password can be
cracked by software in a few hours. ABIT's
SecureIDE will keep government
supercomputers busy for weeks and will
keep the RIAA away from your Kazaa files."

 

[cpals]

SecureIDE:
http://www.abit-usa.com/products/multimedia/secureide/

 

[CTho9305]

i thikn the chip just encrypts your data in hardware instead of software... if your OS tries to write "illegalfile.mp3", the chip probably scrambles it around and then writes the scrambled data. very simple idea.

 

[Tret]

So the riaa can't get you?

 

[Joemonkey]

I don't see how this keeps the RIAA from seeing what you are sharing on Kazaa though...

 

[Tret]

What if you're not sharing any files? What about dc++