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  1. Comment - Seagate: The Hard Drive, Reconsidered

    (Nov 24, 2006 - 11:26 AM)

    It's all a scheme, and I did another post here:
    http://www.betanews.com/...by_Microsoft/1163113145

    And I think that Seagate has already been using DRM in their hard drives. Read the post. It explains it,, and tell me if you don't agree that the problem I've discovered is related to that brand new Seagate hd... They already have RFID on the packages. I've scanned it and made a post on another forum.
    http://www.bleepingcompu.../forums/topic70596.html

    It'll show you what the RFID chips look like. RFID means (Radio Frequency IDentification)

    What no one mentions the really bad downfalls to this whole ordeal, and it's:
    1. If you have no Internet access, you won't be using your hard drive.
    2. If you want to install any software, you'll need to be connected to the Internet.
    3. If you put in your original cd's/dvd's, you'll need to veify them... by going online.

    DonGato wrote:
    Yes, that's the best way of acting.

    First, pronounce your dissatisfaction all around the world. Second, boycott their products. Third, don't buy anything from them or their associates.

    So we should start by not even thinking about Windows Vista. :P

    Well said, and should be practiced, and I won't dare think about using Windows Vista.
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    33Nick wrote:
    It looks like another move into another market lockdown. It feels like DRM is being used by companies to lockdown a market instead of truly innovating.

    Without me. I'll stick to my old har drives, even if I have to stock up ;)

    That's what I'm going to do. I'm also going to pawn off my Seagate to someone that needs 160G,, and then I'll buy one from a company that ISN'T a so-called trusted company.

    They are moving to dictate every aspect of our computing habits to benefit only them. There is no benefit what-so-ever in any of this for the end user. I'll be damned if I'm going to buy a hard drive, then having to activate it. That's simply crazy. Then after it's all said and done... it'll secretly send whatever you load on your hd back through the Internet, and you'll never know it.

    It's simply tracking and spying on us.

  2. Comment - Rootkit Revealer Absorbed by Microsoft

    (Nov 23, 2006 - 3:24 PM)

    Happy Thanksgiving Everyone!!!

    The rootkit saga has been going on since at least 1995. I have a cd here by a group called Aswad (Jamaican group)..with the BMG on the cd. and I'm doing some work for a friend, who has every one of his cd's on his computer, but now none of those files will play.

    Using a computer that has a brand new os on it, and never been online at all... I've taken his ORIGINAL CD and placed it in my burner. Here's what's happening.

    1. All files show up as 1K
    2. Trying to copy the files to my hd fails.
    3. trying to use any software at all to copy/rip the cd fails.

    Although I'm no expert on this ... yet.... but I am already at the conclusion that:

    4. Since 1995, they've been rootkitting cd's.
    5. The cd's MUST be multi-session cd's. There is no way those cd's shouldn't copy to my hd.. or NOT copy/rip at all.... not unless those cd's have rootkits on them.

    When placing the ORIGINAL cd back into the person's computer, it gives a message that the cd has been copied 3 times, and he'd have to download a license to play his songs.

    I then put the ORIGINAL cd back into my computer, but using the Media Player Classic (not Microsoft related) and it'll take a while to load up the songs... but then they'll play from the cd. But again,, when I look at the files in Windows Explorer, they all say 1K.

    I'm still testing this.. and I have still a few extra hard drives that can and will be repartitioned and reformatted and OS installed. I'm going to test this on a few more hd's and if this happens to be the same on those too (brand new os's)... then there is no question at all as to if those cd's are rootkit/multi-session cd's.

    There is no other logical explanation to it, except that rootkits have been around and embedded since 1995.... maybe earlier, but this is the earliest cd I'm testing that comes from BMG.

    Here is a test for you......... Take ANY ORIGINAL cd and try to make 4 copies of it. If it allows you to make 4 copies, that cd is rootkit free, but if it doesn't... that cd has a rootkit on it.. and (or) it could be on your computer. In my case.. that's impossible.. Nor unless the ORIGINAL OS cd has it already built in it, but I doubt that. Then again?????

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