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Re:Toshiba to delist from Japanese stock exchange in December by quesera on Thursday October 12, 2023 @02:15PM (#37860816)
How can a discerning reader tell the difference between this story and an unsubstantiated rumor?

"backdoor on all Toshiba hard drives" is an enormous security concern for all world citizens.

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Re:Toshiba to delist from Japanese stock exchange in December by lokar on Thursday October 12, 2023 @03:36PM (#37862058)
What would a HDD “back door” even consist of 20+ years ago?
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Re:Toshiba to delist from Japanese stock exchange in December by kylebenzle on Thursday October 12, 2023 @04:09PM (#37862530)
No idea, I only got told the story by the commander while we were drinking in our state rooms in the JSDF ship, maybe he was lying?

Importantly though they said it was sending data back, THAT was the issue because the navy had used their drives, so basically stealing us gov data.

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Re:Toshiba to delist from Japanese stock exchange in December by FirmwareBurner on Thursday October 12, 2023 @04:27PM (#37862757)
>No idea, I only got told the story by the commander while we were drinking in our state rooms in the JSDF ship, maybe he was lying?

Military staff would never lie and are also known to be very tech savvy. Story seems legit to me.

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Re:Toshiba to delist from Japanese stock exchange in December by rasz on Thursday October 12, 2023 @06:19PM (#37863905)
>No idea, I only got told

perfect! :) The story makes no sense, but as always there is a small grain of truth in there. Asianometry: Toshiba’s Big Technology Export Scandal https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uaRyqAVIkwI

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Re:Toshiba to delist from Japanese stock exchange in December by autoexec on Thursday October 12, 2023 @08:40PM (#37865051)
Something in their implementation of SMART or some other chip on the controller? No idea what exactly it would have been a backdoor too. The OS? The BIOS? The data on the drive? Memory? Toshiba has offered a number of hardware and software encryption options over the years, but a casual search didn't turn up much older than 10 years.
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Re:Toshiba to delist from Japanese stock exchange in December by lokar on Thursday October 12, 2023 @09:57PM (#37865650)
No one serious depends on drive encryption, you shred the drive when you are done with it.
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Re:Toshiba to delist from Japanese stock exchange in December by kylebenzle on Thursday October 12, 2023 @04:08PM (#37862516)
You can't, I guess that's the nature of dissiminating top secret information on the Internet, don't believe me, or use it as a jumping off point and look it up, I don't care, just telling you want happened. I could give a few more details but that's the interesting part
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Re:Toshiba to delist from Japanese stock exchange in December by 0xbadcafebee on Thursday October 12, 2023 @04:27PM (#37862748)
I think they mean the machines' OS was backdoored, not the hard drive itself. Happened with Lenovo multiple times, could have happened with other manufacturers.

https://thehackernews.com/2013/07/Lenovo-banned-Intelligence... https://thehackernews.com/search/label/Lenovo%20Backdoor%20M...

But also keep in mind the NSA has been backdooring and infiltrating both domestic and foreign commercial entities & critical infrastructure for decades. We can't pretend this is shocking.

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