Backdoor Account Removed from Western Digital NAS Hard Drives

Discussion in 'other security issues & news' started by stapp, Jan 8, 2018.

  1. stapp

    stapp Global Moderator

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  3. Trooper

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    Wow my gosh. Holes in pretty much everything. #skynet is here.
     
  4. RockLobster

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    I bet we have barely entered the rabbithole in terms of the amount of hardware that is compromised.
     
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    Correct.
     
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    That's why the best policy is not to put stuff online or even on your computer that you consider sensitive/really private in the first place.

    As for FB/twitter accounts and the like - nothing to delete here. (and who says they really delete your stuff anyway) Could see this a mile off as soon as I heard of them, as is the case with cloud storage. Thanks but no thanks. To get the addicted masses to even stop and consider the implications of this for a moment is pretty much a forlorn hope, how much more that they'd actually make a change.
     
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    Yup Pandora's box would close a million times easier than woking the unwoke.
     
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    I can't imagine how those innovators who started the www with a vision of a new age of education, information and enlightenment for mankind must feel about the cesspool of deceit these corporate pigs have turned it into.
    It truly sickens me having been the generation that saw it grow from its infancy.
     
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    I was trying to conjugate woke which is still afaik a made up word. As in, "He knows what's going on, he's woke."

    Woke will be an official word soon though.
     
  11. Tarnak

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    There is: awoke ;)
     
  12. RockLobster

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    Woke is wake in the past tense. I woke up.
     
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