Basically, if you own a computer, NSA can install software on your drive. 

On Tue Feb 17 2015 at 09:58:05 Mark Kipyegon via kictanet <kictanet@lists.kictanet.or.ke> wrote:

On 17/02/2015 09:34, Ngigi Waithaka via kictanet wrote:
> If anyone of us here has a hard drive from Seagate, Western Digital,
> Samsung, IBM and any of the rest of the top hard drive manufacturers, then
> the NSA has already hacked you.
>
> http://mobile.reuters.com/article/idUSKBN0LK1QV20150216?irpc=932
>
> Do we move back to paper for sensitive Government operations?
>

At this point are the authorities and the public even concerned about
being spied on?

Last year we learnt that the NSA actively monitors Kenyan GSM networks
and that was quickly forgotten.

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