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I'm with you on this one. I refuse to buy any appliance that requires a connection to the internet. I look for things that are straightforward to repair and ma
by fooblat 5y ago
I'm with you on this one.
I refuse to buy any appliance that requires a connection to the internet. I look for things that are straightforward to repair and maintain.
- myself248 5y agoAgreed, 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?
- BlueTemplar 5y agoPlenty 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.