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.
Genuinely asking: in case the device actually has a malicious back door (et similia threat), can it be reflashed with an Open Source OS?
There’s an old joke in infosec about wanting firewalls made by every different nation. You want a Cisco device, that has back doors for the Americans, a Huawei device that has Chinese back doors, and a Juniper device with Israeli back doors. Put them all together and you should be good
rofl - Americans are getting smarter.
Are you calling me American bro?
Juniper is Israeli? I didn’t know that
Silicom is Israeli too, as was Mellanox before the Nvidia acquisition.
Now that you mention it, it’s Checkpoint. I got them mixed up. Corrected
No no no, that’s not good enough. You also need a Palo alto because all the cool kids are running it and a pf sense for good luck
Don’t forget an EDR solution because the execs are too embaressed to ask what it means so they buy it to save their egos
Doesn’t everyone just google it to remember anyways?
That’s the problem with so many acronyms in networking
EDR, XDR throw money at all the acronyms :D
Something AI powered too for good measure, I presume. Ahem. “AI”.
Don’t forget some WAPs.
I’m not too proud to admit I don’t even know what that is. Someone take my IT credentials away
Wireless Access Point. Maybe it’s used more in a networking environment. But Cardi B stole this acronym.
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!
Better than the CIA watching your back and notifying the IRS.
Absolutely
Commun sense people
Stop buying just bc is cheap.or has a new tech or proccesor etc
Unless you dont give two cents about what you store or what network you plug it in
i audible said “what. the. fuck.” reading this.
Yes. Always yes.
You can easily and relatively cheaply build a NAS with something like TrueNAS or just a Debian file server that I would trust a lot more than anything off the shelf made with closed source code with who knows built in.
There’s no such thing as a “Privately Owned Business” in China…the CCP will always be a shareholder
My NAS is behind my firewall, blocked from all internet access, so no problem for me, no one to phone home to.
I mean, aren’t QNAP and Synology Chinese manufacturers too?
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.
One word. YES