1) The scope is too large. Too many engineers at hard drive manufacturing companies would have to know about it.
2) Too America-centric. Engineers in foreign countries, that actually build most of the stuff, would know about it. It would be an enormous security gap that they could use as well.
The sad thing is that such paranoid fantasies, that are easy to debunk, blind you to the actual conspiracies, that are less comprehensive, more subtle and therefore much more threatening. I bet the TLA government agencies love these stories.
The invisible yellow dots identifying printers went a long time before becoming common knowledge. I don't believe TFA for an instance, but it doesn't seem an impossibility.
1) The scope is too large. Too many engineers at hard drive manufacturing companies would have to know about it.
2) Too America-centric. Engineers in foreign countries, that actually build most of the stuff, would know about it. It would be an enormous security gap that they could use as well.
The sad thing is that such paranoid fantasies, that are easy to debunk, blind you to the actual conspiracies, that are less comprehensive, more subtle and therefore much more threatening. I bet the TLA government agencies love these stories.