Catalog of NSA compromised equipments

[James Knott]

William Muriithi wrote:
>
> Another program attacks the firmware in hard drives manufactured by
> Western Digital, Seagate, Maxtor and Samsung, all of which, with the
> exception of latter, are American companies. Here, too, it appears the
> US intelligence agency is compromising the technology and products of
> American companies.
>

One would assume they want to collect info.  How does a hard drive
communicate anything back to the NSA?  That would require the drive to
send the data via the SATA port, through the IP stack and then out the
NIC.  How is that possible?

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