Well, on the flipside you have the NSA's recent "Equasion" firmware flasher. Assuming the various hard drive companies weren't collaborating (and I'd assume th

Well, on the flipside you have the NSA's recent "Equasion" firmware flasher. Assuming the various hard drive companies weren't collaborating (and I'd assume they weren't considering it was distributed with a virus and not baked-in), signed firmware would have prevented this. All in all I think for the average user (who doesn't even know what firmware is), signed images are a good thing.