OK, the feature I am speaking of seems to be new.
http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1895,1825740,00.asp
I read about a customer in a computer store setting a password that made the drive useless to the store owner.
Seems like any laptop with sensitive information should be encrypted. Windows makes it easy. I assume Linux and MacOS do too.
Yeah that Seagate. That's actually a little more than a program, but that's what I was thinking about.