Re: Security News This Week: Hackers Are Erasing Western Digital Hard Drives Remotely
"J. P. Gilliver (John)" <[email protected]> Sun, 27 Jun 2021 14:34:27 +0100
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On Sun, 27 Jun 2021 at 09:19:06, Rabid Roach <[email protected]> wrote (my responses usually follow points raised): >On 2021-06-27 4:23 a.m., Anonymous wrote: >> https://www.wired.com/story/western-digital-hard-drives-erased- >> amazon-wickr-security-news/ > >Even though I still had a WD Passport external drive, I completely lost >faith in them as a company when the hard disk I purchased for the >laptop I owned from 2010 to 2015 died after 8 months without warning. >I've never seen a hard disk die that quickly, and it's not like I was >lugging the laptop around while sleeping or anything. > > I had to read that twice to dispel the image of you wandering around in your night attire, arms out in front of you, laptop bag over your shoulder! -- J. P. Gilliver. UMRA: 1960/<1985 MB++G()AL-IS-Ch++(p)Ar@T+H+Sh0!:`)DNAf Under capitalism, man exploits man. Under communism, it's just the opposite. - J. K. Galbraith, economist