After hackers wiped many of Western Digital’s My Book Live devices, a look at the code suggests the manufacturer had removed authentication code (Dan Goodin/Ars Technica)

Dan Goodin / Ars Technica:
After hackers wiped many of Western Digital’s My Book Live devices, a look at the code suggests the manufacturer had removed authentication code  —  Western Digital removed code that would have prevented the wiping of petabytes of data.  —  Last week’s mass-wiping of Western Digital …