An attacker exploits a weakness in ATA security on a drive to gain access
						to the information the drive contains without supplying the proper
						credentials. ATA Security is often employed to protect hard disk information
						from unauthorized access. The mechanism requires the user to type in a
						password before the BIOS is allowed access to drive contents. Some
						implementations of ATA security will accept the ATA command to update the
						password without the user having authenticated with the BIOS. This occurs
						because the security mechanism assumes the user has first authenticated via
						the BIOS prior to sending commands to the drive. Various methods exist for
						exploiting this flaw, the most common being installing the ATA protected
						drive into a system lacking ATA security features (a.k.a. hot swapping).
						Once the drive is installed into the new system the BIOS can be used to
						reset the drive password.