Chinese gov't not to blame for infected hard-drives?

[Executioner]

Maxtor drives infected
WND Exclusive Chinese gov't not to blame for infected hard-drives?
Seagate disks were programmed to upload passwords secretly to Beijing websites
Posted: November 22, 2007
1:00 a.m. Eastern

By Jerome R. Corsi
© 2007 WorldNetDaily.com

One week after a Chinese subcontractor manufacturing computer hard drives for sale in America was discovered to have been placing a Trojan horse on them that would upload users' passwords to a website in Beijing, the manufacturer says it doesn't believe the Chinese government was involved.

Seagate Technology, a New York Stock Exchange-listed company, told WND: "We have no indication, nor any reason to believe, the Chinese authorities were involved at all."

The report first surfaced in Asia in a story by the Taipei Times, which said some 1,800 Maxtor Basics 3200 hard drives manufactured in China contained two Trojan horses programmed to upload secretly to websites in Beijing anything the computer saves on the drive.

Webopedia.com defines "Trojan horse" as "a destructive program that masquerades as a benign application." Unlike viruses, the site says, Trojan horses do not replicate themselves "but they can be just as destructive."

Investigation Bureau officials from the Taipei Ministry of Justice suspect Chinese government authorities were involved as part of "an aggressive spying program relying on information technology and the Internet," the Times reported.

Woody Monroe, a spokesman for Seagate, confirmed to WND the hard drives in question did contain Trojan horses when marketed to consumers.

In a corporate statement provided toWND, Seagate argued the Trojan horses on the hard drives gathered only passwords for online games.

These are the infected drives:
http://www.maxtorsolutions.com/en/catal ... index.html

LINK:
http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/artic ... E_ID=58819

[wvjohn]

trojans embedded in video card bios?


gimme a break

[blade]

This was just a matter of time.

And rather obvious. Could also be in anything with memory. With most computer parts made there, it could get worse.