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WD refused to answer our questions about its self- wiping SanDisk SSDs (www.theverge.com)

submitted 10 months ago by airdi@lemm.ee to c/technology@beehaw.org

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[-] HeartyBeast@kbin.social 36 points 10 months ago

They were sued on Tuesday. If you follow the timeline the question were sent in the week before. This has been going on months. Their lack of answers doesn’t have anything to do with the litigation and the company doesn’t cite litigate as the reason for not answering

[-] borlax@lemmy.borlax.com 9 points 10 months ago

Prior to a public lawsuit, they were probably still in damage control mode and still wouldn’t have disclosed a lot. That’s pretty standard million dollar corporation shit.

[-] HeartyBeast@kbin.social 12 points 10 months ago

I know a bit about damage control. Carrying on selling the stuff and stonewalling questions would not be in most company’s damage control play books. It does nothing to protect reputation and does actually control any damage.

[-] astraeus@programming.dev 6 points 10 months ago

It’s definitely not unlikely they knew these class-action suits were in the works long before they were formally filed. A lot of times these are not a surprise to a company with a massive legal team.