> If an adversary gains possession of your hard drive and gives it back > to you, throw it away.
The advice Ted gives is much more than simply correct, it can further be extended to "do NOT accept electronics from people you don't know": OHM2013 Hard disks: More than just block devices [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Da6OARhgXk] This video shows what you could find out independently about storage controller boards: they've become as complex as separate computers.. At any rate the device could just crash, fry or burn down physically. Or plain sleep, snoop or in other ways be that remote control vector.
