[Discuss] Mothballing Synology NAS

[markw at mohawksoft.com]

This is common across the industry. EMC, Cisco, IBM, and others have said
basically the same thing. I would dump synology because its crap, but not
because of that.

> The Meltdown and Spectre vulnerabilities were publicly disclosed 3
> January.
>
> Synology posted their own security advisory 5 days later on 8 January
> listing these vulnerabilities as moderate "because these vulnerabilities
> can only be exploited via local malicious programs." As if there were no
> ways for "local malicious programs" to ever be installed or injected.
>
> As of 4 February, a month after the initial disclosure, Synology have
> yet to release fixes for these vulnerabilities.
>
> I will be mothballing my Synology NAS box as soon as I get a replacement
> for it up and running. I have the parts. I just need to assemble and
> test them, install an OS, and move the drives.
>
> --
> Rich P.
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