With respect, I think the author of this article has learned the wrong lesson about NAS devices. Yes, when you discover your systems are compromised, the first

With respect, I think the author of this article has learned the wrong lesson about NAS devices. Yes, when you discover your systems are compromised, the first thing to do is to take them offline and fix them. But you need to keep your utility devices online for them to be useful, and putting everything in the cloud is not the right solution unless you’ve looked at all the security risks of doing so. And all the risks of losing everything you’ve got in the cloud because your cloud provider has a hiccup. Or if your cloud provider is compromised. I’m willing to trust some selected cloud providers to store my private data, but only as the off-site backup. And only if the content has been at least double encrypted before it has left my systems. And even then, I will keep high “Chinese walls” between those cloud backups and everything else I do online.