Seagate announced the first manufacturer to sell laptop PCs with its new <A HREF="http://www.cnn.com/2007/TECH/ptech/03/12/hard.drives.ap/index.html">built-in encryption technology.</A>
The hard drives, to be available in laptops made by ASI Computer Technologies, will include a chip that makes it impossible for anyone to read data off the disk, or even boot up a PC, without some form of authentication.