Given how notorious the Chinese government is in forcing local companies to add spyware to their products or store encrypted data for future decryption when quantum computers will become more feasible (e.g. Huawei), how secure do you think their Terramaster NAS products are? Is it worth the cost or is it best to just steer clear of these?
Yes. Next question.
ANYTHING from china is suspect.
Yes. Always yes.
Given how notorious the Chinese government is in forcing local companies to add spyware to their products or store encrypted data for future decryption when quantum computers will become more feasible
rofl you live in the UK. worry about MI5 and GCHQ, not President Xi, as they are doing that shit to you right now and actually have the capacity to arrest you!
Are you storing data that the Chinese government would be interested in?
hot take:
it doesn’t matter if China has your data, it matters if the USA does
I’m not a chinese citizen
I mean, aren’t QNAP and Synology Chinese manufacturers too?
If it’s already been purchased, put it in an isolated VLAN, restrict all device-initiated internet traffic from it. Watch your logs for both DNS and outbound connection attempts from it for a few days.
It makes no difference if the device is Chinese, American, Russian, etc, assume nothing should be trusted and use the principles of least privilege at all times…
if its not allowed to route out, who cares? 🔥wall it off
My NAS is behind my firewall, blocked from all internet access, so no problem for me, no one to phone home to.
Avoiding those currently.
I had a Terramaster NAS years ago. It was secure. Never had any intrusion attempts. It was just lacking in power. Switched to a Ryzen based QNAP with dual 2.5G NICs for performance. 5x the cost, but worth it.
I find Americans’ fear of Chinese manufactured products really strange. I’m sure some of those commenters were doing so on their iPhones. Be more concerned about the US government having the ability to read your emails for the last 22 years.
If all you are storing there are movie and cat pictures, you shouldn’t be concerned in anyone spying on you.
Absolutely
i audible said “what. the. fuck.” reading this.
Better than the CIA watching your back and notifying the IRS.