Russian researchers expose breakthrough U.S. spying program

Re:Russian researchers expose breakthrough U.S. spying program by guscost on Monday February 16, 2015 @07:40PM (#9059975)

I wonder if the team working on this has a "wrap party" when the vector is inevitably exposed, or if there's some kind of politics/fallout if they didn't show quite enough ROI. Sort of like modern NASA and ESA (and now ISRO) missions, you know?

Anyway, I'm not interested in getting into a debate, but it sounds like an impressive bit of work.

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Re:Russian researchers expose breakthrough U.S. spying program by unreal37 on Monday February 16, 2015 @07:51PM (#9060004)

Or the program continues uninterrupted because even once exposed, it still works. All major hard drive makers have been infiltrated. Where's everyone in the world going to buy hard drives?

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Re:Russian researchers expose breakthrough U.S. spying program by rasz_pl on Tuesday February 17, 2015 @02:26AM (#9061063)

All it takes is a sata key doing ROT13 on passing data to defeat it, or stripping raid array.

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Re:Russian researchers expose breakthrough U.S. spying program by breul99 on Tuesday February 17, 2015 @07:15AM (#9061781)

One would imagine that raid cards would be an equally appealing attack vector.

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Re:Russian researchers expose breakthrough U.S. spying program by rasz_pl on Wednesday February 18, 2015 @03:48AM (#9067586)

There are driverless/non firmware upgradeable RAID controllers, for example Sil3726 - SATA port multiplier with RAID functionality buildin. Connect couple of drivers and host sees only one.

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Re:Russian researchers expose breakthrough U.S. spying program by guscost on Monday February 16, 2015 @09:00PM (#9060276)

Ah, good point. Wow.

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