ABIT’s new motherboard includes hardware crypto support — presumably as part of participation in Trusted Computing/Palladium? — (thanks, Wes!) and they’re touting its benefits as a tool for keeping the RIAA out of your hard-drive.
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.
(via Inquirer UK)