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US 2010/0138927 A1Published application
Apparatus and Method for Preventing Unauthorized Access to Secure Information
OwnerJonathan D. Callasinventor
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Abstract
A computer readable storage medium includes executable instructions to process a duress command to invoke a system termination operation. The duress command may be a pass phrase with an added prefix or suffix. The duress command may be received from a menu, a dedicated key or a key sequence. The system termination operation may result in whole disk encryption. Alternately, the system termination operation may result in permanent destruction of data.
Claims17
A computer readable storage medium comprising executable instructions to:
- process a duress command to invoke a system termination operation.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.