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Re:WD My Book users wake up to find their data deleted by zamadatix on Friday June 25, 2021 @07:58AM (#27629631)
> Huh. This is a huge security flaw and they decided to not patch it. Winning is patching this.

"Winning" isn't "gee if we could just say we'll patch every discontinued product forever and imagine it had no downsides wouldn't that be great" - that's known as "dreaming".

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Re:WD My Book users wake up to find their data deleted by ec109685 on Friday June 25, 2021 @11:48PM (#27638912)
If a company releases an internet connected appliance, they need to support the software for at least the half-life of the underlying hardware.

Having a vendor support patch releases indefinitely would not be a huge burden for Western Digital.

In this case, it was obvious errors in their PHP application.

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