As if malware wasn't bad enough...

["Paul Ferguson" <fergdawg () netzero net>]

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"A Seagate Technology hard drive sold with Apple MacBooks has a critical
manufacturing flaw that often results in the permanent loss of data, a data
recovery firm reported Monday."

"Retrodata said the problem is confined to Seagate 2.5-inch drives
manufactured in China with a firmware revision of 7.01. The drives use a
serial advanced technology attachment (SATA) interface."

http://www.informationweek.com/news/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=204203468

Bummer.

- - ferg

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"Fergie", a.k.a. Paul Ferguson
 Engineering Architecture for the Internet
 fergdawg(at)netzero.net
 ferg's tech blog: http://fergdawg.blogspot.com/


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