Gigabyte mobo lets you hide files using your phone

Author: Alex Watson
Published: 4th June 2009
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Gigabyte mobo lets you hide files using your phone

The magic of technology - a new motherboard from Gigabyte lets you use your mobile phone to hide sensitive files on your PC.

COMPUTEX 2009: Trusted Platform Module – TPM for short – was a controversial technology when first introduced, accused of being a Trojan horse for all kinds of nasty DRM, remote censorship and snooping software. The furore has died down somewhat, in part because TPM-equipped motherboards have settled into boring lives in business PCs, encrypting spreadsheets.

At this year’s Computex show, Gigabyte was keen to show off P55 motherboards with TPM chips, and to explain that the TPM could be useful for consumers. The company’s Smart TPM technology uses Bluetooth to connect the motherboard’s TPM chip and your phone, so they can exchange a 2,048-bit encryption key.

When your phone is within range of the PC, you have access to your designated files – in the demo of the GA-EP55-UD4P board, we saw a drive appear and disappear in ‘My Computer’ when the Product Manager brought his mobile phone intro range.

And the use of this? Hiding your pr0n, of course.

We were also then treated to a demo of Gigabyte’s new Smart6 software, which will come bundled with new motherboards. Apps included with motherboards usually have the ease-of-use and UI design of the controls in a Klingon Bird of Prey; from what we saw Smart6 is compact, simple and straightforward.

As the name implies, there are six functions:
  • Smart Quickboost – ‘One click’, instant overclocking.
  • Smart DualBIOS – Allows you to store sensitive information securely in the BIOS. In the demo this included both your wife's birthday, and your girlfriend's birthday.
  • Smart Quickboot – If you have a stable hardware configuration, some boot-up checks can be skipped, which enables the system to start faster.
  • Smart TimeLock – Allows you to determine when the PC will turn on and off.
  • Smart Recorder – Allows you to turn on various logging functions, so the PC can record when it’s turned on and off, and even which files are used.
  • Smart Recover – Imagine this as some kind of machine which enables you to travel through time and recover old files. Essentially it creates incremental back-ups, in much the same way as Apple’s Time Machine, although it saves space by only focussing on your document directories.
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Quote I-E-D 4th June 2009, 11:56
Lucky man, has a girlfriend and a wife :)

The quickboot thing would be useful, especially on underpowered PC's
Quote Mankz 4th June 2009, 11:56
Yes. Please.
Quote Skiddywinks 4th June 2009, 13:08
These are some interesting features. Not all of them, mind, but there are definitely some things that I wish my Rampage Extreme had.
Quote Ending Credits 4th June 2009, 17:42
Now you can be the kind of guy with an awesome PC with a wife and a girlfriend!

Also I love the "porn" in the background.
Quote fathazza 4th June 2009, 19:51
i guess you just have to hope your phone doesnt get nicked! ;)
Quote thehippoz 5th June 2009, 01:14
I dunno.. look at the guy one down from the top right- tell me if I'm trippin but is he grabbing his 10" floppy and spraying a fountain
Quote The_Beast 5th June 2009, 01:28
That is some pretty sweet stuff ;)
Quote Cupboard 5th June 2009, 20:14
I thought you could do this already? still, its pretty cool :)
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