Re: Buon Natale

"Alexei A. Frounze" wrote:

I think some serious hacking may be needed for that to work on
Windows. You'd need to:
- disable the swap file
- safely disable registry writing
- disable cookie and temp file storage
- disable writing of config/setup/etc files

Then you still don't understand the working of the "secure hard disk".
From the PC hardware/software side the disk works like any normal
hard disk. You can use the swap file, write to the registry and
anything else. There is no way to find out from the PC side,
that there is a "secure hard disk" attached instead a normal disk.
But after a new power on any changes are lost and the disk is
reset to it's frozen state. This happens only with a power on
and not a reset, because Windows must be able to restart without
loosing the modifications done to the hard disk. And if you need
to make persistent changes, disconnect from the net, power on
the PC with the hard disk in normal mode, make your changes (new
software, Windows update, ...) and then restart the system in
secure mode.
.

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