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How the NSA's Firmware Hacking Works and Why It's So Unsettling
One of the most shocking parts of the recently discovered spying network Equation Group is its mysterious module designed to reprogram or reflash a computer hard drive’s firmware with malicious code. The Kaspersky researchers who uncovered this said its ability to subvert hard drive firmware—the guts of any computer—“surpasses anything else” they had ever seen.
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I noticed that only Windows is mentioned.. but how does this affect Linux or OS X ?
Unsettling & unconstitutional.