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I find this more than a bit ironic since WD was working with the NSA to insert backdoors into all of its hard drives, and the entire point of OwnCloud is suppos
by bqjfwkbwkjfb 11y ago
I find this more than a bit ironic since WD was working with the NSA to insert backdoors into all of its hard drives, and the entire point of OwnCloud is supposedly privacy and escaping surveillance.
- geofft 11y agoCan you provide a source? All the ones I can find (Der Spiegel's article on TAO, Kaspersky's "Equation Group" report) seem to claim that the NSA had found ways to reflash the firmware on the victim's machine to add backdoors, and had high-quality, robust patches to WD's firmware to add backdoors. But I can't track down a claim that WD shipped (knowingly or otherwise) malicious firmware, or that they knowingly provided unpatched firmware sources to the NSA.
- jospoortvliet 11y agoStill an interesting point. Note that the software for this device will be fully developed in the open on Github and IF WD builds in a backdoor between us shipping the final image to them and them putting it on the devices before they go out to users, it will not be terribly hard to find out. Heck, ownCloud 9 will already verify its own code and warn if things are modified, maybe we can do something in the OS image which does some checks, too. You're welcome to help out!