Now the NSA is in your hard drive, says Kaspersky

Recently, it seems that you can’t go two days without finding out some new piece of information which somehow relates to the NSA’s spying program, and with every day that passes it becomes more and more clear that the scope of the program, and the abuse of privacy which it involves are of an incredible magnitude and inescapable pervasiveness. Now, in yet another part of the elaborate plot that is the illegal NSA spying program, Moscow based firm Kaspersky has uncovered software hidden deep within the firmware of computers’ hard drives’ that is designed to spy on the user. According to Kaspersky, this method of espionage would allow...

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Icy blast hits South as winter spreads its reach

Salt trucks rumbled and traffic jammed as a massive new storm brought snow, freezing rain, ice and frigid temperatures to a large swath of the United States on Monday. "It's dangerously cold," Washington Mayor Muriel Bowser told CNN's "The Situation Room," warning that the nation's capital was bracing for up to 8 inches of snow. And federal government offices in the area will be closed on Tuesday. But the snow isn't the only thing to worry about. "We are going to see high snowfall amounts, but the ice is what is going to be the big story," CNN meteorologist Jennifer Gray said, pointing at North Carolina. Raleigh, North...

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