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A two to four year support life for hardware seems ridiculously low. This reflects very poorly on WD, even if the exploit wasn’t discovered until the hardware w
by claviska 5y ago
A two to four year support life for hardware seems ridiculously low. This reflects very poorly on WD, even if the exploit wasn’t discovered until the hardware was six to eight years old.
- hsbauauvhabzb 5y agoThis. If a security vulnerability is significant enough, it should be fixed even in EOL products. I believe Microsoft did this for bluekeep as far back as server 2003. An authenticated, stored XSS on the admin portal of a CMS? Meh. A root remote code exploit on a device which is commonly found plugged into the internet? Definitely.
- takeda 5y agoSomebody mentioned to make requirement that if companies want to discontinue supporting a product they should be required to open source the code.
- wmf 5y agoThe chance that "the community" will create patches and users will somehow find and install those unofficial patches is very low. We need to set our sights higher than this.
- takeda 5y agoIf product is popular there will be always someone. If I was an user, I could patch it up myself (and I'm sure most people here would be able to, we're on HN).