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AssigneeInternational Business Machines Corporation
InventorsCharles Assimos, James McLean
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A method, system and apparatus for identifying unauthorized access to memory locations in a multi-element data storage device. The invention includes a restrictive key that is physically coupled to at least one inaccessible memory element in the data storage device. The key prevents the user from accessing the data in that element. A securing device connects the restrictive key to the data storage device's housing. When the key is altered from its initial position, the securing device is broken. Because the securing device is at least partially located on the outside of the device housing, it is readily visible. Therefore, if the securing device has been broken, the key to which the securing device was coupled was necessarily moved. This provides visual evidence that there has been an attempt to access one or more data memory areas that had been previously been rendered inaccessible by the restrictive key.
A system for identifying unauthorized access of portions of a data storage device, the system comprising:
An apparatus for providing evidence of access to one or more unauthorized memory elements within a data storage device, the solid state data storage device having an outer and inner surface, the apparatus comprising a mechanically manipulative flange coupled to the one or more memory elements, the flange restricting access to the one or more memory elements, wherein the flange is alterable from a first position to at least a second position such that physically altering the position of the flange provides access to the one or more memory elements to which the flange is coupled.
A method of providing evidence of access to unauthorized memory locations within a data storage device comprising;
A method of identifying unauthorized access to data in a storage media, the storage media comprising one or more memory locations containing data that is prohibited from access, the method comprising:
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.