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From: "Ted Mittelstaedt" <tedm@toybox.placo.com>
To: "Jonathon McKitrick" <jcm@FreeBSD-uk.eu.org>, "Joe S" <js.lists@gmail.com>
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Subject: RE: Hidden spot on hard drives?
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>-----Original Message-----
>From: owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org 
>[mailto:owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org]On Behalf Of 
>Jonathon McKitrick
>Sent: Wednesday, October 05, 2005 11:57 AM
>To: Joe S
>Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
>Subject: Re: Hidden spot on hard drives?
>
>
>On Wed, Oct 05, 2005 at 11:55:18AM -0700, Joe S wrote:
>: Jonathon McKitrick wrote:
>: >the company where I work (with Windows) is evaluating a copy 
>protection
>: >product that stores info somewhere on the HDD where the user 
>cannot touch 
>: >it,
>: >a format will not erase it, and Norton Ghost will not find it.
>: >
>: >1.  Any idea where this info could be stored?
>: >2.  Any way the same thing could be done under FreeBSD?
>: >
>: >Thanks,
>: >
>: >jm
>: 
>: # dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/zero
>: 
>: Will overwrite the entire drive.
>
>Thanks.  What I was wondering is if there is a way to do the same copy
>protection in FreeBSD, where I could store the data in the same 
>place on the
>drive where the user cannot access it.
>

No.  The root userID can do anything and go anywhere.

Ted