As Published In Oracle Magazine January/February 2007  CHANNELS:
Cutting Edge  Driving and Flying  Encrypted hard drives and
planes that mimic birds  Secure Hard Drives  In this fast-paced
world, we've all got plenty to worry about, so losing a laptop
with sensitive information on it is the last thing you
need—especially if you work for a large company or government
organization. Sure, there are passwords and other security
applications that limit access to data, but there are better
ways to secure hard drive content.  Seagate's DriveTrust
technology is a drive-level set of security services that take
advantage of the hard drive's computing environment. Modern disk
drives contain a full-fledged computing element, including
processor, RAM, a multitasking operating system, and dedicated
private magnetic storage. Although host operating system
environments are designed to enable widespread application
support, hard drives are closed computing environments that run
specialized code to manage drive functions. In s