You are on a U.S. military aircraft, transporting hard drives with important, classified information, when you collide with another plane and are forced to land near an enemy intelligence agency.

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In a conversation I had with hard drive maker Western Digital, vice president Gary Meister acknowledged that it’s possible to create a virus that attacks the microcode in drives from Western digital ...