Garmin services and production go down after ransomware attack
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#2For many many hours already, including SSO, their webshop, and all of Garmin connect. The devices can't sync anymore, the mobile apps are all but useless and Garmin has yet to comment on any of this. Yikes.
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#3It took me a whole minute to disable cookies on this website with their built-in tool, and uBlock still blocked 80 scripts. For a status page.
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#4I precisely like garmin watches because if you don't setup their bluetooth, you are not tracked by anyone, it's not required to connect to servers etc... It's enough for me because I only need to check BPM.
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#5I am happy I am still able to run, even with their services down. But I found no comments on the internet at all about the reason of the incident.
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#6Their products are designed to work offline. Despite the cloud being down I have full local functionality right now. (Though I can't see my history, surprised they don't cache that locally).
Last year when I did a 9-day canoe trip with no cell phone reception, all of my Garmin gear worked flawlessly (wearables, navigation devices, and their offline map app). Can't say the same about my friends iWatches/fitbits or even some stuff on various stuff of iPhones and my pixel.
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#7I precisely like garmin watches because if you don't setup their bluetooth, you are not tracked by anyone, it's not required to connect to servers etc... It's enough for me because I only need to check BPM.
Of course there isn't any guarantee that at some point, some marketing manager won't decide to break that.
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#8I've recently started processing the GPX data from my (oldish) Garmin watch myself, thanks to https://www.gpsbabel.org.
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#9Their products are designed to work offline. Despite the cloud being down I have full local functionality right now. (Though I can't see my history, surprised they don't cache that locally). Last year when I did a 9-day canoe trip with no cell phone reception, all of my Garmin gear worked flawlessly (wearables, navigation devices, and their offline map app). Can't say the same about my friends iWatches/fitbits or eve…
Do they? Last Garmin product I had was a Vivosmart HR: an internet connection and a Garmin connect account was required to change basic settings such as the display orientation. And there was no way to disable syncing.
Re: Garmin services and production go down after ransomware attack
#10Their products are designed to work offline. Despite the cloud being down I have full local functionality right now. (Though I can't see my history, surprised they don't cache that locally). Last year when I did a 9-day canoe trip with no cell phone reception, all of my Garmin gear worked flawlessly (wearables, navigation devices, and their offline map app). Can't say the same about my friends iWatches/fitbits or eve…
All devices function as USB mass storage devices as far as I know, so no data is lost.
I was planning to load a bike route from komoot on to my FR735 later today which will take an additional minute without Garmin servers. They're surprisingly optional.