seagate

[stj]

are bastards!
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2015/09...ned_purloined/

[Per Hansson]

Re: seagate

Protocol: Telnet
Username: root
Password: root

Per looks at his watch; says 2015
Damn Seagate, the eighties called and said to stop using a protocol that was insecure 30 years ago!
And with a default password, I really am speechless!

[stj]

Re: seagate

NSA asked for a backdoor,
engineers decided to have a laugh at their expense?

[diif]

Re: seagate

Put in for testing purposes and not removed before going into production would be my guess.

[stj]

Re: seagate

anybody know the prime part of the mac address so i can scan for these with my long-range rig?

[keeney123]

Re: seagate

Shame on them. They are suppose to be leaders in their field?

[stj]

Re: seagate

Shame on them. They are suppose to be leaders in their field?

BS,
if you look at the top harddrives in industry it's fujitsu and IBM (who i think still make the scsi/fibre drives)

seagate are consumer grade.
whatever the hell that is.

[ratdude747]

Re: seagate

F*cking telnet? I would have expected at least SSH. Not only have they been caught with their pants down, they were going commando too

[goontron]

Re: seagate

That's why my NAS is an HP thin client with an AMD Geode and 1gb of ram running FreeBSD with disks in 1+0 hardware raid!

[stj]

Re: seagate

That's why my NAS is an HP thin client with an AMD Geode and 1gb of ram

is that a T5730 ?

[shovenose]

Re: seagate

I had a t5720 for a while. Cool little box

And great code quality control Seagate! /s

[ratdude747]

Re: seagate

That's why my NAS is an HP thin client with an AMD Geode and 1gb of ram running FreeBSD with disks in 1+0 hardware raid!

I'm running a dell poweredge with a pentium d and 1gb Ecc ddr2, modded with a newer LSI SAS hardware RAID card and SATA backplane. 3 7200rpm 500gb drives on raid 5 (I may snag a 4th as a hotspare, idk.

Runs Debian wheezy x64, no GUI. Headless too, maintained via SSH.

[goontron]

Re: seagate

is that a T5730 ?

I don't remember.... It had XP imbedded and 256 mb of ram when I got it. I replaced the small IDE SSD with a 5 GB boot flash I got at DEFCON.

[fzabkar]

Re: seagate

BS,
if you look at the top harddrives in industry it's fujitsu and IBM (who i think still make the scsi/fibre drives)

seagate are consumer grade.
whatever the hell that is.

Fujitsu's HDD assets were acquired by Toshiba in 2009.

IBM's HDD assets were acquired by Hitachi in 2002.

According to BackBlaze, Hitachi's drives are currently the most reliable 3.5" HDDs:

https://www.backblaze.com/blog/best-hard-drive