Spies...*

Alleged Spy, Anna Chapman.

Someone has figured out how to hide spying software deep within hard drives made by Western Digital, Seagate, Toshiba and other top manufacturers, providing the means to eavesdrop on the majority of the world's computers.

It was part of a cluster of spying programs discovered by Kaspersky Lab, the Moscow-based security software maker that has exposed a series of Western cyber-espionage operations.
The targets included government, military, telecommunication, banks, energy, nuclear researchers, media, and Islamic activists, Kaspersky said.

The firm said it was closely linked to Stuxnet,  attacked Iran's uranium enrichment facility. The NSA is the agency responsible for gathering electronic intelligence on behalf of the United States. 

Disk drive firmware is viewed by spies and cybersecurity experts as the second-most valuable real estate on a PC for a hacker, second only to the BIOS code invoked automatically as a computer boots up.
"The hardware will be able to infect the computer over and over.