[letmein]

Probably?

Snowden leaks already show NSA has badbios-style firmware viruses targeting every manufacturer, every model, going back a decade. Imagine what they have today. Why not mass infect all hard drives at the factory? Targeting individuals or "thematic warrants" are still too clunk and doesn't scale.

All these folks who say "I'll out smart them, I'll encrypt my SSD and Fedex it" are "Not Even Wrong."

http://www.spiegel.de/media/media-35661.pdf

[codefined]

As most encryption takes place at the software level, not the hardware level, wouldn't it be difficult to infect all hard drives with some virus targeting encryption?

Also, not to mention most of my hard drives are made by China, whom seem not to like the NSA very much. This leads me to believe that they may struggle with the mass infection part.