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Does WD Drive Lock encrypt the data?
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Mar 15, 202613341 viewsConfidence Score0%
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I wonder if WD Drive Lock actually encrypts the data on a Western Digital My Book Essential device or just puts a firmware-level password on the device. If it's just a password the data surely could be retrieved by a third party. I could not find anything on about that on user manuals. I found a bl…
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No encryption, it locks the hard drive so data cannot be accessed, this is done by a chip on the hard drive controller board, they are very hard to break into if you do not have the password, some makes/models are impossible even by data recovery/cr…
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