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[qubes-users] Persistent firmware backdoors possible across major hard drive brands

To: [email protected], "Eugen Leitl" <[email protected]>
Subject: [qubes-users] Persistent firmware backdoors possible across major hard drive brands
From: [email protected] (Seth)
Date: Wed, 18 Feb 2015 03:45:32 -0800
In-reply-to: <[email protected]>
References: <[email protected]>

On Tue, 17 Feb 2015 07:11:14 -0800, Eugen Leitl <[email protected]> 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.

References:
- [qubes-users] Persistent firmware backdoors possible across major hard drive brands
  - From: [email protected] (Eugen Leitl)

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