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Not surprised Samsung doing it. They consistently over promise and under deliver. I remember when buying their SSDs they promised support for HW encryption in f

by Ocha 4y ago

Not surprised Samsung doing it. They consistently over promise and under deliver. I remember when buying their SSDs they promised support for HW encryption in future firmware update (Opal2/eDrive if I remember correctly) but they never actually delivered it. Since then I don’t trust anything Samsung promises or says.

jiggawatts 4y ago
They still market this feature today, even though it is dead in the water. Hardware encryption was implemented so poorly that Microsoft said “enough is enough”, and simply dropped all such features from BitLocker. It is impossible to enable this feature on any supported version of Windows. (The straw that broke the camel’s back was apparently some vendors using “all zeroes” as the master encryption key.) Samsung should be charged with false advertising. If I wasn’t too lazy I would report them to the ACCC.
- Gigachad 4y ago
  Hardware encryption should never have been trusted in the first place since it’s impossible to audit. The completely obvious thing happened where it’s incompetently implemented.
KennyBlanken 4y ago
They've been caught cheating on phone benchmarks, too. They also hyped the hell out of Apple removing the headphone jack...and then did the same thing. Ditto for Apple removing the default charger; Samsung quietly followed suit not long after Apple. The whole headphone jack thing is a joke. Just buy the sub-$10 Apple lighting or USB-C headphone adapter. An adapter that tests better than more than half of the "high end" "audiophile" DACs. Mine now lives on the end of my one pair of wired headphones. It has been very rough, but somehow I have managed to persevere.
- thewebcount 4y ago
  > They also hyped the hell out of Apple removing the headphone jack...and then did the same thing. Ditto for Apple removing the default charger; Samsung quietly followed suit not long after Apple. I have a friend who worked at Apple then later ended up at Samsung. He said that any original idea at Samsung was immediately squashed and they were basically told when designing features to do whatever Apple did. So I’m not too surprised by that.

by Ocha 4y ago

jiggawatts 4y ago

They still market this feature today, even though it is dead in the water. Hardware encryption was implemented so poorly that Microsoft said “enough is enough”, and simply dropped all such features from BitLocker. It is impossible to enable this feature on any supported version of Windows. (The straw that broke the camel’s back was apparently some vendors using “all zeroes” as the master encryption key.) Samsung should be charged with false advertising. If I wasn’t too lazy I would report them to the ACCC.

Gigachad 4y ago
Hardware encryption should never have been trusted in the first place since it’s impossible to audit. The completely obvious thing happened where it’s incompetently implemented.

KennyBlanken 4y ago

They've been caught cheating on phone benchmarks, too. They also hyped the hell out of Apple removing the headphone jack...and then did the same thing. Ditto for Apple removing the default charger; Samsung quietly followed suit not long after Apple. The whole headphone jack thing is a joke. Just buy the sub-$10 Apple lighting or USB-C headphone adapter. An adapter that tests better than more than half of the "high end" "audiophile" DACs. Mine now lives on the end of my one pair of wired headphones. It has been very rough, but somehow I have managed to persevere.

thewebcount 4y ago
> They also hyped the hell out of Apple removing the headphone jack...and then did the same thing. Ditto for Apple removing the default charger; Samsung quietly followed suit not long after Apple. I have a friend who worked at Apple then later ended up at Samsung. He said that any original idea at Samsung was immediately squashed and they were basically told when designing features to do whatever Apple did. So I’m not too surprised by that.