I am not sure from the article when this exploit occurs. Are they saying that if I buy a WD hard drive the code is already embedded in the firmware before I open the box (ie. corrupted before it leaves the factory) or does it occur online? If it’s the latter then the solution is to have a computer or harddrive that you never connect online from day one in addition to your online computer. If they corrupt the firmware before the device leaves the factory you are SOL and if they can do that then they can certainly do the same thing to your bios chipset before it gets installed in the motherboard and fitted into the computer to be sold or home built.
It’s there, when you open the box. Nothing you can do to prevent it. It’s in the firmware. From reading this and other articles, in some cases, the NSA planted developers to insert the code among other methods.
The insertion before/during shipment was reported a few years ago. Our “intel boys” were doin’ it to some other national gubmint’s, I forget which.
Sounds cool til we consider what’s being done to us sheeple here in America.
It’s really goofy too, the layers of bs.
I mean, if we were concerned about some “Chinese threat”, when why do our elites have us sending all our jobs to them, buying so much from them, (hardly sounds like our elites think they are an enemy ??), and why do we have so much footsy being played with them inside our own government ?????????????
Remember
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Huang
just ONE example of thousands of far east folks having full access at the top of our leadership.
I mean really, our elites are MARRIED to the FAR EAST.
THEY ARE IN LOVE !
I mean really, it’s a little like barf, you know ?
$itch McConnell has a Chinese wife, Jon Huntsman practically is Chinese, as are all of Wall Street, private equity, FOUNDATIONS, etc.
It’s like a big, sweet cake that’s all icing and no cake.
Love affair.
But...
at the same time our intel boys are spyin’ on them and their intel boys are spyin’ on us.
Oh, and our intel boys are spyin’ on us sheeple.
And their intel boys are spyin’ on their sheeple.
It’s RIDICUROUS !