j2fusion

Good!  We need more of this. You should not be able to lay a patent trap. 

Seems like a overly broad patent to me. 

Good!  They should step up and help recover the data. They should have the major news outlets do a story telling affected users who have had their data wiped to unplug the device and contact WD. When you have data wiped your chances of recovery go down with every attempt to get the data back unless you really know what you are doing. I can see stories of people who had their buddy, who claims to know how, try to recover the data only to cause  more damage. 

I wonder if Mountain Lion Server is also available for free. The user (non-server) version will not run in a Virtual Machine. Only the server version is licensed to run in a VM. 

Like I said on my comment in the other article, I think WD has some culpability here because they continued to offer the remote access service. Any company that allows remote access has a responsibility to respond to new known threats. If they truly we’re going to end security updates, then they should have disabled remote access.  Getting out the popcorn and waiting for the lawsuits.