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Toshiba to launch self-erasing hard drives

Toshiba will soon debut a series of hard drives that can automatically erase or prevent access to their own data should the drives end up in the wrong hands.

The company's new self-encrypting drive family will include a new feature that detects if the drive is connected to an unknown and undefined computer or other system. If so, the drive can either securely wipe all of its data or just deny access to that data. Customers can apply the feature to specific data on the drive and choose how and when to render the data indecipherable, according to Toshiba.… Read more

Security-storage device specifications finalized

According to the Privacy Rights Clearinghouse, since January 2005 there have been more than 252 millions records containing sensitive personal information compromised because of security breaches in the U.S.

Most of these breaches were because of the loss of computer equipment, more specifically the hard drive. When a laptop is stolen, chances are the information contained on its hard drive is worth a lot more than the value of the computer itself. And thousands of laptops are stolen each year.

For this reason, the Trusted Computing Group released Tuesday its final versions of three storage specifications designed to enable … Read more

Photos: RCA Opal

We've had an influx of inexpensive RCA MP3 players lately. Jasmine posted her reviews of the RCA Jet and the RCA Pearl last week. Now we've got the RCA Opal, which is probably the most unique player RCA has released. It has a great list of features, including support for DRM WMA and Audible formats. I thought the user interface was a little confusing--not helped by the fact that the control pad is a little slanted.

The claim to fame here is that the Opal supports photo and video playback for under $70. If you're interested, click … Read more