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Kinda like the others have stated, you’re trusting the company to have fixed any known vulnerabilities, but also that there aren’t any unknown exploits.
Ultimately the question isn’t should you or not, but is the risk worth it? If your home finances are contained there in, if those impossible to recover or reproduce pictures are stored on there, then if you were to have your system locked with ransomware, how important is that data? Do you have their camera system? Would you mind the random internet looking at those cameras? That’s the real question.
If you only have some downloads you could find again and if you lose everything on the system, then you’re not risking much, so it’s kinda why not?
The other risk to that is they’d possibly gain access to your internal network through your NAS. No telling what a bad actor would do.
Much more likely to gain access via a compromised desktop, or smart phone.
The NAS runs its own OS and is just as vulnerable as a desktop or smartphones. They’re all computers.
Yes, but the other computers I listed have a person behind them that will click things. Like a "close" button that actually installs malware. A NAS does not click things.
True, but, what if you host VMs on the NAS? Or data for some application? Those can result in an attacker running code on them, and from there, in most homelab networks, i assume is a short way from owning everything in your network
When you turn your NAS into a hosting platform, it is no longer just a NAS.