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Tuesday
Feb172015

NSA Has Planted Surveillance Software Deep Within Hard Drives Since 2001

The U.S. National Security Agency (NSA) has been planting surveillance software deep within hard drives made by top manufacturers, allowing it to eavesdrop on almost every computer in the world, according to Kaspersky Lab, a Moscow-based software security company that announced its findings Monday.

Kaspersky did not explicitly name from which country or intelligence agency the spying software was found, but former operatives from the NSA confirmed that the findings correlated with NSA activity, Reuters reported.

The NSA’s spyware lies within drives manufactured by Western Digital and Seagate, who deny that they had any knowledge of such programs.

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