[qubes-users] Persistent firmware backdoors possible across major hard drive brands

[Seth]

On Tue, 17 Feb 2015 07:11:14 -0800, Eugen Leitl <eugen at leitl.org> wrote:
> Affected HDD brands include[2] (but are probably not limited to):
>  * Western Digital
>  * Maxtor
>  * Seagate
>  * Hitachi
>  * Micron
>  * OCZ
>  * OWC
>  * Corsair
>  * Mushkin
>  * Samsung
>  * Toshiba

I thought I remembered reading somewhere that malicious firmware  
replacement for Intel drives was either difficult or nigh impossible due  
to their practice of code-signing updates. Perhaps that could explain  
their absence from this list.