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

nospam <[email protected]> Wed, 30 Jun 2021 11:43:42 -0400
Newsgroups alt.privacy.anon-server,alt.comp.os.windows-10,alt.comp.hardware.homebuilt,comp.os.linux.advocacy
Organization A noiseless patient Spider
Message-ID <300620211143426922%[email protected]>
In article <[email protected]>, Frank Slootweg
<[email protected]> wrote:

>   FYI, (before my previous post), I checked the configuration of my
> (Synology DS115j) NAS which has "personal cloud" functionality. Guess
> what? The default is that that functionality is completely disabled.

synology's cloud is very safe.

another option is use synology's vpn app (which might need to be
installed) for direct access, skipping synology's cloud entirely.

or just leave it off.

>   Bottom line: If you would be "setting up your system for remote
> access" without proper security (i.e. authentication, etc.) and someone
> would access your system and erase your disk(s), would that also be all
> over the news and people blaming Microsoft or/and whoever made your
> computer, disk, <whatever>!? I don't think so. 

yep.