The default setting is to share the computer on which Pogoplug version 3 is installed. The computer appears on other computers on the same LAN even if the volumes don't appear.

At a minimum, it should default to NO SHARING of any kind, even the name of the computer.

But the bigger question is this: Why isn't the earlier version 2.x available? It works, I still use it and have switched from 2 to 3 and back again, and it allows setting up backups from my computer to a pogoplug device, without going through the website. Far more user comprehensible, in my view.

Having talked to the others about Pogoplug, talking up the benefits, the security issue is always the number one objection, and version 3 simply makes the issue more visible and problematic.

It's not my company or my program, so I don't have much input on the decisions, but as a customer, I see version 3 as a lot more invasive than version 2 was. Perception is reality regarding these black box unexplained technologies.