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IanWilson
Jan 10, 2015Aspirant
Can a 314 ReadyNAS get hacked?
I am really worried : A few days ago I had to have tech support to me brand new 314 readyNAS. I was asked for my password by the online tech and left it in tech support mode for 12 hours until the ...
Danthem
Jan 11, 2015NETGEAR Employee Retired
Well, we can put it this way - if you know what you're doing and/or just looking around, SSH is fine. However if you don't know what you're doing and manage to break parts of your system or even brick the complete device, you will be denied support. The average user never needs to use SSH.
As for the bug, SSH is useful but not crucial; booting the device in to tech support mode will provide the access required to fix the issue with a missing web interface. The bug only occurs if you uninstall certain apps, so my recommendation for now is to avoid uninstalling any apps until 6.2.3 has been released.
As for the bug, SSH is useful but not crucial; booting the device in to tech support mode will provide the access required to fix the issue with a missing web interface. The bug only occurs if you uninstall certain apps, so my recommendation for now is to avoid uninstalling any apps until 6.2.3 has been released.
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