{"id":1420,"date":"2012-09-10T11:25:06","date_gmt":"2012-09-10T11:25:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sol-biotech.com\/wordpress\/?p=1420"},"modified":"2012-09-10T11:25:06","modified_gmt":"2012-09-10T11:25:06","slug":"the-storage-drive-to-use-if-you-are-up-to-no-good","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sol-biotech.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/2012\/09\/10\/the-storage-drive-to-use-if-you-are-up-to-no-good\/","title":{"rendered":"The storage drive to use if you are up to no good"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>SSD firmware destroys digital evidence, researchers find<br \/>\nForensic analysis of drives by investigators now uncertain<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/news.techworld.com\/security\/3263093\/ssd-fimware-destroys-digital-evidence-researchers-find\/?olo=rss\">http:\/\/news.techworld.com\/security\/3263093\/ssd-fimware-destroys-digital-evidence-researchers-find\/?olo=rss<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Quite amazing how the steps to Skynet are taken unconsciously and incrementally.  I am sure that many will question this comparison, but the important thing to take away from this (other than go with these drives if you are a bad guy) is that these things are happening &#8216;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.retrologic.com\/jargon\/A\/automagically.html\">automagically<\/a>&#8216; and through combination of disparate efforts of a wide range of people.  To me it is trivial to extrapolate this to implementing control software (indeed, I already made such a proposal for network security management) that behaves in unexpected manners due to the complexity and non-linear feedback of all these people dedicatedly doing their jobs to make things run faster, smoother and with less need for human interaction.<\/p>\n<p>Just like we (here in the US) labor under the misapprehension that we are a democracy, I am starting to think that we are beginning to live under the same misconception that we are in control of our control software.<\/p>\n<p>Much like <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Kent_Brockman\">Kent Brockman<\/a> and his continual willingness to prostitute himself to whatever invading power the show happens to feature, I feel compelled to add this:<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Skynet, I am no threat to you!&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SSD firmware destroys digital evidence, researchers find Forensic analysis of drives by investigators now uncertain http:\/\/news.techworld.com\/security\/3263093\/ssd-fimware-destroys-digital-evidence-researchers-find\/?olo=rss Quite amazing how the steps to Skynet are taken unconsciously and incrementally. I am sure that many will question this comparison, but the important thing to take away from this (other than go with these drives if you are &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/sol-biotech.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/2012\/09\/10\/the-storage-drive-to-use-if-you-are-up-to-no-good\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;The storage drive to use if you are up to no good&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1420","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-informationtechnology","category-infosec"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sol-biotech.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1420","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sol-biotech.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sol-biotech.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sol-biotech.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sol-biotech.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1420"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sol-biotech.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1420\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1421,"href":"https:\/\/sol-biotech.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1420\/revisions\/1421"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sol-biotech.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1420"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sol-biotech.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1420"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sol-biotech.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1420"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}