Iomega marketing materials give a good laugh on their new ix4 NAS products:
Other security features include robust username and password authorized access, and RSA BSAFE encryption technology for hacker-free installs and upgrades.
What? Does this mean if you are a hacker you are unable to choose a username, set a password, or enable RSA BSAFE? Sounds like some amazing security technology. Hacker-free? Can’t wait to get my hands on one.
Seriously, though, it’s nice to see that a self-contained automatically configured 2TB device costs under $700. Network admins should be considering rules right now to detect Iomega mac addresses. One of these things pops up on the network and you can almost bet trouble is coming — “hacker-free” trouble.
I don’t mind that the data on this device is not encrypted in case someone just takes it, but I wish it was!
The thing that bothers me more is that back up options to an external device don’t get encrypted either, the advantage to using a Linux PC to replace this device is that when I do my backups they are encrypted via EncFS so even if someone comes across my backup somehow, good luck getting any useful data :p
But honestly if these companies that make these toys aren’t thinking encryption,
they’re not thinking! :)