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

Mayayana <[email protected]> wrote:

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>   I knew you'd be back to argue this. :) But you're shooting the
> messenger. There are reasons to allow remote access, as I said,
> but there are also risks. You don't do yourself any favors by blaming
> my imagined paranoia for those risks.

  I'm not shooting the messenger (and I'm not blaming you for the
risks). It just was - a kinda still is - unclear what the message *was*.

  What you wrote was:

> | >   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.

  The "Thus, idiotic." part was unspecific, contentless and hence
meaningless and the [not] "entirely safe" was already a backpedal from
your earlier "unsafe". "idiotic"/"unsafe" are not really meaningful
arguments, won't you agree?

  So it's not about me blaming you, but about you seeming to blame
unspecified parties for doing/not-doing unspecified things.

  Also - 'between the lines' - you seemed to be blaming WD for their
customers losing their data.

  But now it seems your *actual*/intended message is "Be very, very
careful with enabling outside Internet access to your 'stuff'!". If so,
we of course all agree.

  FWIW, I do not have any of the risky 'IoT' stuff you mentioned. So
don't worry about me! :-)

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