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That's the point. Seagate changes that dynamic!!! There is an easily proven benefit in instant erase and recovery. There are some obvious benefits to centralized key management. The law REQUIRES an audit trail.
THIS HAS NOTHING TO DO WITH TPMs except technologically. It also has very little to do with hacking or at least the idea of fool proof security. It has everything to do with improving risk management -- a concept CEOs and IT managers DO understand.
Like a driveway curb cut on the correct corner of a gas station, everything can change when the benefits of hardware FDE encryption are understood. We've all experienced enough frustration that I use can rather than will. Just as only benefits matter to the customer, only profit matters to the share price. We are currently 24 million dollars away from profit. We need to sell a half a million units a year, every year, for breakeven to occur. I firmly believe that will happen and the nightmare will be replaced by the dream.
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