[HS General] Fwd: Re: [qubes-users] Persistent firmware backdoors possible across major hard drive brands

Interesting.

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Temat: Re: [qubes-users] Persistent firmware backdoors possible across major hard drive brands Data: środa, 18 lutego 2015, 03:45:32 Od: Seth Do: cypherpunks@cpunks.org

On Tue, 17 Feb 2015 07:11:14 -0800, Eugen Leitl eugen@leitl.org wrote:

Affected HDD brands include[2] (but are probably not limited to):

• Western Digital
• Maxtor
• Seagate
• Hitachi
• Micron
• OCZ
• OWC
• Corsair
• Mushkin
• Samsung
• Toshiba

I thought I remembered reading somewhere that malicious firmware replacement for Intel drives was either difficult or nigh impossible due to their practice of code-signing updates. Perhaps that could explain their absence from this list. -----------------------------------------