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So there are bugs in drive firmware. How about security bugs? Should we expect quality drives to have had a security audit?
by abecedarius 11y ago
So there are bugs in drive firmware. How about security bugs? Should we expect quality drives to have had a security audit?
- zokier 11y agoYes, firmwares have security bugs too: http://spritesmods.com/?art=hddhack http://spritesmods.com/?art=hddhack
- cmdrfred 11y agoIf you are doing your security at the hard drive layer, haven't you already lost?
- abecedarius 11y agoSo another reason for whole-disk encryption is to defend against your own drive firmware? I guess that may make sense nowadays, though it hadn't occurred to me.