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Re:WDMyCloud Multiple Vulnerabilities by kogepathic on Saturday January 06, 2018 @02:06AM (#16084239)
> Well, shit. I've had one of these as a stand-in for hopefully eventually getting a Synology NAS, and now I'm paranoid about continuing to use my WD MyCloud.

The hardware is still fine. You can put Debian on it!

There is a very active forum of people replacing the WD firmware with Debian on various models (EX2 Ultra, EX2100, EX4100): https://forum.doozan.com/list.php?2

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Re:WDMyCloud Multiple Vulnerabilities by fulafel on Saturday January 06, 2018 @07:19AM (#16084961)
Sadly homebrew Debian variants aren't very safe either. Usually they lack timely OS updates, ship pregenerated ssh host keys in the images, stuff like that. Even Raspbian is pretty bad at this though better than many smaller ones.
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Re:WDMyCloud Multiple Vulnerabilities by zmix on Saturday January 06, 2018 @08:54AM (#16085237)
Also: https://community.wd.com/t/clean-os-debian-openmediavault-an...
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Re:WDMyCloud Multiple Vulnerabilities by vasili111 on Saturday January 06, 2018 @03:33AM (#16084403)
> The hardware is still fine.

But if the software is with built-in backdoor there is no reason to trust the hardware.

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Re:WDMyCloud Multiple Vulnerabilities by mynewtb on Saturday January 06, 2018 @03:42AM (#16084425)
Even if you don't like apples, you might like oranges.
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Re:WDMyCloud Multiple Vulnerabilities by dmannorreys on Saturday January 06, 2018 @04:07AM (#16084500)
Maybe, but I wouldn't eat them if they came from the same, infested, farm :)
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