Re: Security News This Week: Hackers Are Erasing Western Digital Hard Drives Remotely

"Frank Slootweg" <[email protected]> wrote

| >   The problem is with "My Book Live", an idiotic and unsafe
| > "personal cloud" device designed to be accessed from
| > online. So as with remote desktop, the real problem is with
| > people thinking it's safe to allow direct access to their
| > computers from the Internet.
|
|  It's not 'idiotic' and it's not 'unsafe'

  There are some things that can't be made entirely safe. One
is javascript in browsers. Another is setting up your system
for remote access. There are reeasons to risk both. There's
no sensible reason to risk it in order to have a "private cloud".
Thus, idiotic.

|  Also note that the reports are about people 'losing all their data'!
| How is that possible? Did they only have *one* copy of their data?

  Maybe so, maybe not. That wasn't the point. The point was that
their disks were erased. Rather shocking, don't you think, backup
or not? You can pretend there's no risk to what
you're doing but it just isn't true.