[brianwski]

Disclaimer: I work at Backblaze, and I was here first.

> I'd worry they would sue for...

If you are referring to Backblaze, we're not going to "sue" anybody for anything.

We (Backblaze) have dealt with a bunch of frivolous lawsuits (and patent trolls) over the years suing us, and OMG we're not going to instigate any lawsuits over some honest person legitimately reporting some issue and being helpful. It isn't going to happen.

Our reputation is important to us. Not just for Backblaze: I'm saying the individuals that founded Backblaze and those people that work now here base our entire existence and careers and the number one marketing efforts at Backblaze are based around we are trying to be "the good guys" and transparent and acting like it. There is no possibly world where we try to suppress a screwup like this through legal means. That would be a PR debacle of epic proportions.

If something went wrong, let's shine a spotlight on that cockroach and figure it out together. I'm not sure the exact drive we are all talking about, but my first guess would be a customer ordered a $189 "USB Restore" all their data shipped to them on an encrypted drive) and we (Backblaze) shipped the customer a USB restore drive and they are subsequently selling it (after copying their restore off of it) on the open market. If it is above 8 TBytes this is absolutely *NOT* the case and we should get to the bottom of it. Without lawyers mucking up the situation.