Yes. Next question.

ANYTHING from china is suspect.

I got a Terramaster but I installed OMV on it. Is it still risky ?

hot take:

it doesn’t matter if China has your data, it matters if the USA does

Pribably

There’s no such thing as a “Privately Owned Business” in China…the CCP will always be a shareholder

Absolutely

Having recently purchased a really nice looking piece of network gear with all the features I wanted at a very low price from a Chinese vendor that had absolutely no existing reputation I was aware of, my experience was enlightening with the final lesson being re-taught: you get what you pay for.

If your use case is within the boundaries of the equipment’s quality limits then you will probably do fine, but I suspect if you try to explore the more complex features of the equipment you will find out where the lack of effort and cost reduction comes from.

how secure do you think their Terramaster NAS products are

I don’t think this would be any less secure than any other consumer vendor device. I just don’t think you’d be able to get much help if anything is broken, and I wouldn’t expect to see any fixes for bugs.

You definitely should not put something like this directly on the Internet, and that advice isn’t limited to Chinese hardware. It is pretty easy to limit a device like this from “phoning home” at your Internet edge if you’re concerned with such things.

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?

if its not allowed to route out, who cares? 🔥wall it off

Better than the CIA watching your back and notifying the IRS.

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

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 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