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Re:Gandi loses data, customers told to use their own backups by mschuster91 on Thursday January 09, 2020 @10:50AM (#22002151)
What baffles me is that there seems to be no way for either the customer or a data-recovery company to flash a new firmware onto the drive after it has failed. Someone there wanted to spare the few millicents of copper trace for a JTAG port?!
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Re:Gandi loses data, customers told to use their own backups by marcinzm on Thursday January 09, 2020 @11:17AM (#22002404)
Probably to prevent supply chain firmware changes for hacking, espionage, etc.
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