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Re:Toshiba to delist from Japanese stock exchange in December by formerly_proven on Thursday October 12, 2023 @04:15PM (#37862617)
Some SSDs understand partition tables and file systems to trim/discard their flash "automagically", so it would be possible for firmware to manipulate e.g. OS components stored on the disk to introduce a backdoor. The hard drive has plenty of storage space for that.
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Re:Toshiba to delist from Japanese stock exchange in December by FirmwareBurner on Thursday October 12, 2023 @04:18PM (#37862652)
1. We're talking about HDDs from 20 years ago, not SSDs. Different beasts entirely.

2. That still means you need physical acces to the victim's system to exploit, nothing that can be exploited remotely.

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