Authenticating hardware for manually enabling and disabling read and write protection to parts of a storage disk or disks for users

摘要

Data protection is weak with the methods currently available and there are risks of corrupting important data, including system data accidentally by users or by malicious programs. We are proposing a method for improving access protection, more particularly, protection for data on mass memories by adding a hardware that will enable or disable read or write protection to portions of mass memories for each user. The hardware supports one or more users and two or more states for each supported user. The state of the hardware is manually controlled by the users. Depending on the configuration, each hardware state corresponding to a user corresponds to disabling or enabling read or write protection to some portions of a mass memory or mass memories for that user.