Hard drive hack provides root access, even after reinstall
My knee-jerk reaction was, why didn't WD sign the code and use on-chip fuses and a secure boot path to verify the code before transferring control to anything outside their boot ROM? (Many ARM-based systems-on-a-chip are capable of doing this).Adds cost, for one thing. But you can arrange for the unit to never run a byte of code (even one loaded from the platter) that didn't come from WD.