Not to suggest something radical here...but what if it wasn’t the Chinese? There are numerous companies and countries out there between the manufacturing point and sales point. I could every easily have a German distribution company that takes the item somewhere in the middle and adds a file. I have no doubt that hard drives are being sold around the country with Trojans loaded...perhaps we ought to stand back for a second and actually look at the infected HD...and really track down the culprit. Somewhere along the search...I might want to consider that our own US government has taken alot of actions over the past five years that I would have considered unethical ten years ago. If our own FBI or Homeland Security folks were doing this...would I still be upset? Thank about that for a moment. The speed which Seagate reacted...makes me think that they already knew something was going on.
The Taiwanese newspaper that broke this story said the drives were manufactured in Thailand, but Chinese subcontractors were the prime suspects.