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Seagate hard drive controversy persists as scammers discover methods to alter reliability metrics (www.tomshardware.com)

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[–] deegeese@sopuli.xyz 3 points 1 year ago (1 child)

The fault is the manufacturer selling tamper-friendly products.

There are always going to be shady resellers but there is no reason a manufacturer should allow them to reset the counter for power on hours.

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[–] BCsven@lemmy.ca 5 points 1 year ago

The issue is exploits exist in every hardware and software, just takes a person looking for vulners

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