The hardware "not working" is very different from the hardware ... • Aaron Parecki

rankest choice voter https://twitter.com/karabaic • Jun 25
It’s a drive discontinued 6 years ago, and users expect the cloud-based infrastructure to still work? I think it’s 6 years past the time to use it as anything but a dumb usb drive …

The hardware "not working" is very different from the hardware still having an active connection to the cloud that can be exploited to wipe the drive. If it "didn't work" I'd expect it to be effectively offline.

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Thu, Jun 24, 2021 10:56pm -07:00

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- rankest choice voter twitter.com/karabaic
  
  And we can see from the CVE report that it wasn’t a vulnerability in the cloud service at all, but in the drive itself. If you know the IP of the drive, you can wipe it. No firewall? An argument for open sourcing EOL’d copyrighted software, not against the cloud.
  
  Fri, Jun 25, 2021 3:49pm +00:00 (via brid.gy)
- rankest choice voter twitter.com/karabaic
  
  All good points. There’s no evidence that this was a failure of that sort, though. My point stands: it’s unrealistic to expect the vendor-provided cloud service for a product to work 6 years after EOL date. REMOVE THE ETHERNET CABLE. The disk working 5+ years is heroic, too.
  
  Fri, Jun 25, 2021 2:16pm +00:00 (via brid.gy)
- Torgie, +2💉, but still 6+ feet away twitter.com/torgie
  
  DUDE. The fallback behavior for any "cloud-enhanced" hard drive should obviously be: "a normal hard drive". If the network connection is down? Be a hard drive. If the API calls fail? Be a hard drive. If every single cloud enhancement fails catastrophically? Be a hard drive.
  
  Fri, Jun 25, 2021 8:41am +00:00 (via brid.gy)
- rankest choice voter twitter.com/karabaic
  
  Did the users have it plugged into ethernet? I would not have any expectation of that interface working reliably at all, especially if it calls out to cloud infra that is not being maintained via some sort of fee…
  
  Fri, Jun 25, 2021 6:02am +00:00 (via brid.gy)

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