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Someone (probably the NSA) has been hiding viruses in hard drive firmware
The NSA may be hiding payloads in the firmware of consumer hard drives, according to a new report from Kaspersky Lab. The report tracks a group that researchers have dubbed "Equation," which uses...
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That was a pretty good paper. I really wanted to know a lot more about the hard drive flashing stuff, but it doesn't look like it's pretty damned rare. Some of the strings inside the compiled code seem to mention HDD manufacturers, and firmware commands.
NSA is mentioned a lot in the article (and others), but the actual paper makes no such claims. In fact, when discussing a deployment method using available BBS software, it was mentioned specifically...
So, there's that. There's all sorts of clever programming groups out there.
We've gotten to the point where literally everything we type is probably recorded somewhere. If not yet, we soon will.
time to dust off the trusty typewriter
This should come as no surprise to anyone.
Just another step into 1984!
It's getting a lot harder to be over-the-top paranoid these days.
A tin foil hat doesn't seem all that weird anymore.