I thought I read somewhere that RFID was easily copied and resubmitted or something. Of course I could be wrong, I sometimes mix up facts on my quest to read the whole internet ;)

Great.....until you lose your 'dogtag'. Stupid idea IMO.

Despite the 'girly theme' I almost like that enclosure. I can see how it might go with some people's decor *cough* Mac users* a lot better than most enclosures.

The dogtag has to be within 5mm of the drive for it to unencrypt the drive contents? Is there some more secure way to place the tag there than just laying it on top like that? A socket or something? Because I doubt it weighs very much, and with that chain hanging off it there are lots of situations where it'll get snagged or bumped or just slide off... and having your hard drive suddenly stop responding in the middle of something wouldn't be good.

I'll set aside any questions about the encryption process and the RFID tag itself until I know more -- its an interesting approach, but as implemented it seems like there might be even more basic issues.

Imagine if they mixed up their orders...

The first that came to mind when I saw that porcelain box was "specimen tray".

Those PSUs wouldn't use the same RFID principle, by any chance?
That would be cool. The PC would only be powered if the dog tags were around it.

Having a hard drive shaped like a rifle magazine seems like a bad idea if you ever travel by air...

I just built my girlfriend a new computer using the In Win Allure (http://images.google.ca/images?q=in%20win%20allure&oe=utf-8& rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&client=firefox-a&um=1&ie=UTF-8&sa=N&hl=en&tab=wi) case. I think I just found part of her Christmas present.

I read the headline as 'RDF Encryption' at first glance although they first picture doesn't go along with the Mac asthetic. I thought maybe someone had figured out a way to encrpyt the RDF in such a way that it is impossible to crack versus merely very hard to crack like it is now.

Yeah, I would say both of those are....

Interesting.