
Write protection is any physical mechanism that prevents modification or erasure of valuable data on a device. Most commercial software, audio and video is sold pre-protected. ==Examples== These mechanisms are intended to prevent only accidental data loss or attacks by computer viruses. A determined user can easily circumvent them either by coveri...
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Device on computer disks and tapes that provides data security by allowing data to be read but not deleted, altered, or overwritten
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