Hard Drives Spying on Computers?
- added November 14, 2007
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- curleysound
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Seagate hard drives made in Thailand apparently come with preloaded trojans. An investigation of computers used by the Taiwanese government showed that the trojans upload files to Beijing web sites, causing speculation that the Chinese government is involved in a clandestine spy program.
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- curleysound
- 10 months ago
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It wouldn't be the first timeChina has been up to some nefarious stuff online... -
I gotta admit, that's actually a pretty clever way to spy on other people.
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- Varex_Sythe
- 10 months ago
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no more seagate for me...
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Seagate is probably the most reliable brand of hard drive out there. A lot of IT people swear by them and the drives are in millions of web servers around the world. This is very alarming.
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- omarfrancis
- 10 months ago
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China and Russia are really doing well with delving into the world of shadowy uses of tech. See also: http://www.wired.com/politics/security/magazine/15-09/f...
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- RambleOn623
- 10 months ago
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Am I missing something? The article is alternately talking about MAXTOR drives and Seagate drives... which is it?
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