So by now it has become a pretty established fact in the tec world that the trend of governments to use digital spying is weakening the security of our digital lives. As governments (mostly the U.S.) continue to put back doors into our software, we become increasingly targets for hackers who want to steal our information (just like the governments do). The latest revelations are pretty grim. The NSA has installed malware into hard drives and phone SIM cards.

Someone (probably the NSA) has been hiding viruses in hard drive firmware

The only solution to the Equation Group is destroying your hard drive