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Re:WD My Book users wake up to find their data deleted by myself248 on Friday June 25, 2021 @09:41AM (#27630627)
Agreed, but the My Book doesn't require a connection. It can use it, optionally, but I don't think it would run afoul of this prepurchase test.

Now, as for how they ended up configured to be accessible from the internet, I'm not sure. Is that a user-facing option? Is it on by default? Did WD have a responsibility to disable the feature when they stopped maintaining it?

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Re:WD My Book users wake up to find their data deleted by BlueTemplar on Friday June 25, 2021 @02:13PM (#27634390)
Plenty of IoThings don't "require a connection", yet end up on the Internet anyway, which is perhaps worse.

That's one of the reasons why the transition to IPv6 is good : IoT directly connected to the Internet without any NAT is going to be the default assumption.

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