Re: Security News This Week: Hackers Are Erasing Western Digital Hard Drives Remotely
Clifford <[email protected]> Sun, 27 Jun 2021 20:48:02 -0000 (UTC)
| Newsgroups | alt.privacy.anon-server,alt.comp.os.windows-10,alt.comp.hardware.homebuilt,comp.os.linux.advocacy |
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| Organization | dizum.com - The Internet Problem Provider |
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On 27 Jun 2021, "J. P. Gilliver (John)" <[email protected]> posted some news:[email protected]: > 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! "Hit him with your purse!" came to mind.