Posted on 02/16/2015 11:44:44 PM PST by Dallas59
(Reuters) - The U.S. National Security Agency has figured out how to hide spying software deep within hard drives made by Western Digital, Seagate, Toshiba and other top manufacturers, giving the agency the means to eavesdrop on the majority of the world's computers, according to cyber researchers and former operatives.
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1. I need to go out right now and buy Kaspersky cuz they seem like the most knowledgeable about viruses and computer security.
2. I need to avoid Kaspersky at all costs. The only way they know so much is cuz they're a branch of the Russian FSB.
You should have a third thought.
3. What spy agency do I believe more/fear less from?
The basic premise was that the president of the US was using the fear of an underground communist terrorist group to move the country in an ever-more totalitarian direction.
At the beginning of the movie the characters believe that the president just made up the communist group for his own nefarious purposes. But toward the end of the movie they start believing that the communist group is real, and that the president is its leader.
I couldn't help thinking of our current situation.
I started “believing that the communist group is real, and that the president is its leader” long before the POS was elected..
Fear more.. the OBI... (Obama Bureau of Indoctrination)..
hey, if you aren’t doing anything wrong, you shouldn’t be worried about the government monitoring your computer’s hard drive.
To hack a hard drive, one would have to install a different ROM in it. Sounds like a logistics challenge when hardware can be had from anyone.
Not rom EPROM. Disc has its own os stored in EPROMs and can be
Re flashed via host Sata interface.
They already know of your crimes. They are an established fact.
“Show me the man, and I’ll show you the crime.” - Lavrentiy Beria, head of Joseph Stalin’s secret police.
Depends. It is a bug or a feature?
So someone sets up a virus that will flash a hard drive’s EEPROM.
Don’t know what countermeasures the hard drive makers take against this, as they would not want an easily virused product. The cure presumably would be an antivirus against the flashing virus plus a restore of the original EEPROM contents.
Also, it would need some degree of host OS cooperation. More easy with Windows, especially older versions. Less easy with Linux, especially newer versions.
18-year old news. The problem was getting the info off the disk, out through the OS. This was ‘fixed’ by MS in the late ‘90s since hacks were out which used OS TCP/IP stacks to send the info. The unofficial hacks were stopped and the official ones remained. At least that’s my speculation on it.
PKD has a bunch of great stories.
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This could be interesting.
Did Snowden shoe them how to do this?
Then why a Bill of rights or Constitution? If you`re not a threat to ‘the powers that be’, you have nothing to worry about, right?
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