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Re: Seagate 7200.11 Drives attempted scam
From: vulcanius <vulcanius () gmail com>
Date: Tue, 20 Jan 2009 12:22:57 -0500
I can hear n3td3v screaming and crying from here. On Tue, Jan 20, 2009 at 9:00 AM, Razi Shaban <razishaban () gmail com> wrote:
On Tue, Jan 20, 2009 at 9:09 AM, Razi Shaban <razishaban () gmail com> wrote: > On Mon, Jan 19, 2009 at 1:40 PM, Dave Kleiman <dave () davekleiman com> wrote: >> If you have Seagate 7200.11 Drives you should seriously consider not using them for any valuable information storage, you might even consider replacing them. >> >> >> >> The following information was provided to me by Scott "ByteAssassin" Moulton: >> >> Seagate is now admitting a huge problem with 7200.11 Drives. Seagate is picking up the tab for data recovery. I have known about this problem and been teaching it in the class since the drives were released and seen hundreds, not only Seagate's, but also Western Digital and Hitachi. It's great to see them being responsible. >> >> There is a place to do the BIOS update. I have a feeling the problem is much more extensive than the firmware. There are updates on the list below to test and update. I will let you know more as I discover it. However, I will tell you that Western Digital and Hitachi have similar problems with drives failing. We will see what that is in the future I guess. >> >> Seagate Barracuda drives failing en masse >> >> http://www.electronista.com/articles/09/01/13/seagate.barracuda.fail ures/ >> >> http://seagate.custkb.com/seagate/crm/selfservice/search.jsp?DocId=2 07931 >> >> >> >> Respectfully, >> >> Dave Kleiman - http://www.ComputerForensicExaminer.com >> 4371 Northlake Blvd #314 >> Palm Beach Gardens, FL 33410 >> 561.310.8801 >> > > > Do you have any actual evidence to back up these wild claims? > Besides the inquirer, of course (the source for the electronista article) and the _fake_ knowledgebase website. > > seagate.custkb.com != seagate.com > >Seagate's knowledge base can be found at http://www.seagate.com/www/en-us/support/ > > -- > Razi Shaban > ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Dave Kleiman <dave () davekleiman com> Date: Tue, Jan 20, 2009 at 3:26 PM Subject: RE: Seagate 7200.11 Drives To: Razi Shaban <razishaban () gmail com> shhhhhhhhhh do not tell anyone. myself and byteassassin have created a supermicro nix kernel that runs in the flash area of seagate drives, we can cause the rotational speed of a hard drive to triple, and then the platters shatter. we already have over 500K downloads, and at defcon this year we be able to take over millions of computers and show us controlling them during our presentation, and then bang millions of hard drives will all crash at once....permanently! i hope you are not one of those security research guys and try and turn us in........................ --------------------------------------------- nub fails epicly. Regards, Razi Shaban _______________________________________________ Full-Disclosure - We believe in it. Charter: http://lists.grok.org.uk/full-disclosure-charter.html Hosted and sponsored by Secunia - http://secunia.com/
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