[ArchReaper]

That's definitely not true, the article mentioned people traveling between countries - TSA/border patrol/airport police aren't going to send your laptop over to the NSA/KGB to have it cracked by an expert. That being said, actually encrypting the data is way more secure than fucking with HD self-reporting.

[johnlorentzson]

If you go so far as to modify the hard drive firmware, you probably already use full-disk encryption.