<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>ksml</author><text>The WD response to the original bug report (from &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.wizcase.com&amp;#x2F;blog&amp;#x2F;hack-2018&amp;#x2F;&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.wizcase.com&amp;#x2F;blog&amp;#x2F;hack-2018&amp;#x2F;&lt;/a&gt;):&lt;p&gt;&amp;gt; The vulnerability report CVE-2018-18472 affects My Book Live devices originally introduced to the market between 2010 and 2012. These products have been discontinued since 2014 and are no longer covered under our device software support lifecycle.&lt;p&gt;So support can be discontinued after &lt;i&gt;two years&lt;/i&gt; after introducing a product??? That&amp;#x27;s ridiculous. It&amp;#x27;s not even like this was a one-off product and they&amp;#x27;re no longer supporting that line of work. WD still sells MyBooks.</text><parent_chain><item><author>ivraatiems</author><text>I posted this in the other thread on this topic, but the CVE for this issue - &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;nvd.nist.gov&amp;#x2F;vuln&amp;#x2F;detail&amp;#x2F;CVE-2018-18472&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;nvd.nist.gov&amp;#x2F;vuln&amp;#x2F;detail&amp;#x2F;CVE-2018-18472&lt;/a&gt; - has been public since 2019. No action taken by WD to remedy it, by their own admission (I found this link on their own announcement).&lt;p&gt;That&amp;#x27;s seriously messed up. I&amp;#x27;d have to very seriously second-guess buying anything that involves software of any kind from this company.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Help All data in WD mybook live gone and owner password unknown</title><url>https://community.wd.com/t/help-all-data-in-mybook-live-gone-and-owner-password-unknown/268111</url></story>
<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>Santosh83</author><text>Dumb hard disks are still fine I&amp;#x27;d guess. Just don&amp;#x27;t go for any &amp;quot;smart&amp;quot;, connected or networked device. I have several plain backup HDDs from WD and they, IME, have been more reliable than Seagate from a hardware point of view.</text><parent_chain><item><author>ivraatiems</author><text>I posted this in the other thread on this topic, but the CVE for this issue - &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;nvd.nist.gov&amp;#x2F;vuln&amp;#x2F;detail&amp;#x2F;CVE-2018-18472&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;nvd.nist.gov&amp;#x2F;vuln&amp;#x2F;detail&amp;#x2F;CVE-2018-18472&lt;/a&gt; - has been public since 2019. No action taken by WD to remedy it, by their own admission (I found this link on their own announcement).&lt;p&gt;That&amp;#x27;s seriously messed up. I&amp;#x27;d have to very seriously second-guess buying anything that involves software of any kind from this company.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Help All data in WD mybook live gone and owner password unknown</title><url>https://community.wd.com/t/help-all-data-in-mybook-live-gone-and-owner-password-unknown/268111</url></story>