Hackaday Links: February 20, 2022

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Over 6.5 million terabytes of flash storage ruined because of contamination at factory https://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/showthread.php?p=6328449#post6328449 #WesternDigital #Kioxia "will likely lead to price hikes and further strain on the already-taxed supply chain."

#WesternDigital tries to explain their junk #software and why their customers lost their data 😱

Source: https://www.westerndigital.com/support/productsecurity/wdc-21008-recommended-security-measures-wd-mybooklive-wd-mybookliveduo

The unauthenticated factory reset vulnerability been assigned CVE-2021-35941.

One does not simply connect a hard drive to the internet without ever wanting to produce #security updates!

So what can the customers do now? 🤔

My Book Live users will also be offered a trade-in program to upgrade to a supported My #Cloud device.

Buy new snake oil from the same #company. Capitalism is like hell.

And that's the major difference with #FLOSS, because with free software you would get an update!

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Hackaday Links: June 27, 2021

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posted by pod_feeder_v2