consider what info NSA has access to with it's stunning global passive adversary infrastructure. to you or me, developing exploit implants on a systematic scale

consider what info NSA has access to with it's stunning global passive adversary infrastructure. to you or me, developing exploit implants on a systematic scale targetting the firmwarw of every model of every harddrive of every vendor seems technically impossible to us outsiders. but NSA has access to the emails, internal bug trackers and source code repos of the entire dev teams at all of those vendors. think how easy it would be to hack all firmware on an indistrial scale when you can cheat and read the blueprints? NSA is the biggest cheater. i no longer consider them as being gods of cyberwar. rather, they merely tricked us all to believe NSA was not mass surveilling everyone, then we were blinded to the scale of what was really possible behind the curtain. if we had the source code to the firmware of every hard drive, we could do exactly the same thing NSA did. also, yes, do not ever trust a computer. remember the photo of David Miranda's macbook motherboard after his laptop was siezed when he was connecting to a flight in London and acting as the courier between Laura Poitras in Berlin and Greenwald in Brazil? the photo showed GCHQ melted like a dozen chip on his motherboards. when that photo came out, it was puzzling, because the Snowden leaks about NSA hacking firmwares had not yet leaked. in hindsight, now we know. NSA and FVEYs physically destroyed every chip that they could implant, out of fear that someone else could BADBIOS attack David's macbook and steal the Snowden cache.