Abit throws gauntlet down to RIAA, governments

And in a further fit of either bravado or an attempt to be crazily cool, the firm says that its Secure IDE technology will "keep government supercomputers busy for weeks".

Secure IDE, says Abit, has a special decoder without a special key, and that means hard drives can "never be opened by anyone".

That means that even "hackers and information thieves" cannot access the data, even if it's removed from a PC.

It claims that passwords can be cracked in hours but Secure IDE is a different kettle of fish altogether.

You can find Abit's bold statement here. µ