content: Fake news!?  Don't abuse that term like "literally" was abused. HDD controllers are micro computers at this point.  Enterprise disks even carry built in utilities for crypto and unattended formatting.  WIth that kind of space, something creative could be easily drummed up. Hell here's one:  Whatever body the US has that intercepts shipments, does so, and bugs an external HDD,  the disk now has the custom firmware. Drive is connected, and gets data put on it by the user. When disk is idle, the firmware begins reading the disk, from start to end, broadcasting each bit, and essentially giving a full disk image, albeit slow as tits.    Camera in room of secure hardware is tapped or accessed by a planted security guard, footage exfiltrated, data reassembled.  Full compromise Highly impractical - But entirely possible.  If someone, or some alphabet agency wanted to explore all options to get something, this is a very realistic alley to do so.  Especially if they can get another device in which can read at full speed and relay it out of room to another receiver.