It gets worse: :-( "Western Digital Removed Code That Would Have Prevented Widespread Hard Drive Hacks"

WD Legacy Products My Book Live Duo
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Have a read of this article. I’ve captured the recent text on the Internet Archive.

https://web.archive.org/web/20210630124603/https://www.extremetech.com/internet/324249-western-digital-code-widespread-hard-drive-hacks?source=Computing

I think I shall be downloading the GPL code for my NAS and searching for any commented out code. What’s reported in this article is that there was code commented out by WD, possibly an oversight by a programmer, that would have prevented your My Book Live or My Book Live DUO from being wiped by malicious hackers. :frowning:

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@Myron,

For My Book Live or My Book Live Duo information and updates, please refer to the Security Bulletin listed below.

WDC-21008 Recommended Security Measures for WD My Book Live and WD My Book Live Duo

https://www.westerndigital.com/support/productsecurity/wdc-21008-recommended-security-measures-wd-mybooklive-wd-mybookliveduo

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