Firmware on your hard drive may be collecting data for NSA
I just read this article at http://theweek.com/articles/539748/kaspersky-right-reveal-nsa-secrets about how Kaspersky revealed more of the NSA's tactics. One of them was interesting... the firmware on your hard drives may contain collection sensors implemented by the NSA:
"The Kapersky Lab's disclosure provides a paradigm for pushing back. In a report published Monday, the Russia security software company said it had discovered that a government entity, most likely the NSA, had implanted intelligence collection sensors inside the hard drives of virtually every type of popular computer on earth. The implants they found inside the coding for the firmware itself, akin to manipulating DNA instructions on the molecular level."
Scary indeed!
Ooops, this has been posted already: https://trisquel.info/en/forum/spying-software-hidden-deep-within-hard-drives-made-western-digital-seagate-toshiba-and-other-
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explain?
I think it's because people here are under some impression that anything
potentially political has no place in the free software discussion - which
is outright incorrect. This is not a troll hole topic. This is an issue of
free hardware rather than software, however. I have no idea if that's
appropriate or not.
On Fri Feb 20 2015 at 9:49:48 AM <name at domain> wrote:
> explain?
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