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Title: Russian researchers expose breakthrough U.S. spying program
Source: Reuters
URL Source: http://www.reuters.com/article/2015 ... erspying-idUSKBN0LK1QV20150216
Published: Feb 16, 2015
Author: Reuters
Post Date: 2015-02-17 03:00:29 by GeorgiaConservative
Keywords: russia, nsa, spying
Views: 887
Comments: 4

(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. To: All (#0) (Edited)

How can this be? The U.S. is the beacon of freedom, and Putin's Russia is a totalitarian regime, at least according to Western media. Yet it appears the United States of America and its NSA are the ones behind this blatantly anti-freedom, nefarious spying program.

Mmm, tastes just like liberty.

GeorgiaConservative  posted on  2015-02-17   3:02:41 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#2. To: GeorgiaConservative (#1)

They have spyware to infect the firmware of hard drives. These hard drives contain flash memory to drive their controllers and RAM caching. So NSA and others created some flashable drive controller software to infect any computers containing these hard drives. The computer can antivirus all it wants because it is the storage controller itself that is infected. A drive controller virus like this only has to wait for a request to load a .EXE file (a program) and can then substitute its virus payload for the desired program. The virus, once loaded, can then proceed to invoke the original desired program as well, leaving no trace that infection has occurred from the hard drive firmware. An infected hard drive controller can also be used to shield stored spyware from drive scanning utils.

Tooconservative  posted on  2015-02-17   5:12:27 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#3. To: TooConservative, nolu chan, pinguinite (#2)

Hackers and anti virus companies will find a way to defeat this.

A K A Stone  posted on  2015-02-17   8:27:58 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#4. To: GeorgiaConservative (#0)

hide spying software deep within hard drives made by Western Digital, Seagate, Toshiba and other top manufacturers

And the Chinese don't disable (or modify) those features during the manufacturing process?

LOL.

Right.

"All your tiny bit-base are berong to us! Ha Ha Ha!"

VxH  posted on  2015-02-18   22:37:36 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


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