[ConcernedCitizen]

Western Digital advised customers to disconnect their My Book Live devices

Apart from businesses who rely on remote connections to access and transfer data, I cannot fathom why any home user would risk their sensitive data by connecting their device online.

The equation Is pretty simple - keep It within the confines of your local environment.

How else do you backup your servers to your NAS without it being networked? I use mine for hybrid cloud backups and site backups (also personal storage). I guess you could keep it offline like a RAID5 or just external storage container but that's not nearly as useful. You can run docker containers, websites, virtual machines, and red teams (or blue teams if that's your thing). You can backup your videos/documents to your NAS and have it upload to several places with a snap. I mean, why wouldn't you connect it to the internet or at least have it reachable from your VPN? Oh yeah...

Because nothing is bulletproof and the internet is a scary place if you don't know what you're doing.