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Seagate has announced a new hard drive with hardware- and software-based data protection built into the drive itself.  The security platform, known as "Drive Trust," meets the security specifications of the Trusted Computing Group (TCG), and should be available early next year.

Seagate says Drive Trust is very easy to manage, since it's pretty much all done automatically.  All the data on the drive is always protected, not just some of the data, and only at certain times.  And the security features are independent of the drive itself.

It is unclear at this point just how far this technology will go.  It's being offered first in consumer hard drive, so it's possible it'll be used as an extension of DRM...let's all cross our fingers and hope that doesn't happen.

Original article by TGDaily.