Disable Time Capsule Guest user access

Hi there, I have a 1TB Time Capsule running 7.6.1.
I had previously set Shared disk access to With Accounts and setup 2 accounts.
This worked great as i always had to authenticate to gain access ot the files.
Since the latest update guest also has access!
Is there any way to disable guest having access to my disks that i have set to with accounts?
If this is not possible then the Tome Capsule is inherantly insecure!
Worse than that it's pretending to be secure by setting secure disk access but still allowing access to all the files by guest! not good

Hi there. I think that when you set shared disk protection with accounts, folders are created for each of the accounts and an aditional one called "Data". As a guest, you can access the Data folder without password but not the other folders. If you log in with an account, you can access your account folder and the Data one.
Still, I agree this is a serious problem. For months I had my Time Capsule disc protected wtih device password, thinking everything was safe, until a friend of mine told me he could access my Time Machine files without entering any password from outside my LAN. My entire system was exposed during that time. I still don't know how to block guest access using protection with device or disc password.
Apple should fix this, there should be millions of users with their files exposed on the internet without their knowledge.

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