Security flaw found in SSD technology

Not a security flaw, it can only reduce lifespan of the device. I normaly do not criticize headlines, but this is misleading, it should be changed. Your data is not exposed to anybody.

Any microcontroller driven device is subject to intentional attacks. A special data patter written to the hard drive could result creating bad sectors. Test programs use such patterns for triggering relocation of weak areas.
 
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sajunky said:
Not a security flaw, it can only reduce lifespan of the device. I normaly do not criticize headlines, but this is misleading, it should be changed. Your data is not exposed to anybody.

Any microcontroller driven device is subject to intentional attacks. A special data patter written to the hard drive could result creating bad sectors. Test programs use such patterns for triggering relocation of weak areas.
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This process allows the written data to be intercepted and corrupted as it is being written, which causes file corruption and can reduce the lifespan of the drive.

It can corrupt your data
 
irBosOtter said:
This process allows the written data to be intercepted and corrupted as it is being written, which causes file corruption and can reduce the lifespan of the drive.

It can corrupt your data
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To do that you need some evil agent running on your PC, so you are already exposed. There is many more ways to corrupt your data intentionally by interefing with system buffers, changing device mode, writing to the firmware area. Simple. Aplies to any SSD and hard drive, router - any microcontroller driven device, even keyboards.

Ading now a bold typeface to my OP.
 
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How have they only found a security flaw now? We've known for ages that SSDs are not secure and anything you write to them can be available even at the end of their life.
 
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