Re: Security News This Week: Hackers Are Erasing Western Digital Hard Drives Remotely
Frank Slootweg <[email protected]> 29 Jun 2021 13:56:59 GMT
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Char Jackson <[email protected]> wrote: > On Sun, 27 Jun 2021 09:19:06 -0400, Rabid Roach <[email protected]> wrote: > > >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. > > One bad drive and you lose faith in the entire company? Every storage > company has a less than 100% success rate. I must be really, really stupid: Out of three lost drives, two were Western Digital (WD) drives [1]. And what did I do? I bought yet another WD drive. Some people deserve all the bad luck they get! [1] Adding insult to injury - and to get back on topic - one of them was in a WD MyCloud NAS.