How to convince my Dad..

miikeeyy92 · 23 Sep 2015 at 21:54

That buying a WD MyCloud or similar won't 'offer him up to the internet' and be cloned/conned/hacked/insert here?

I strongly think my family should have a central hub for all our photos as at the moment they are all over the place with backups of backups here there an everywhere. As we don't all live together also as I am at university, some sort of cloud based system is ideal, but Dad won't seam to have any of it!

KIA · 24 Sep 2015 at 11:59

A shared OneDrive folder?

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Marine-RX179 · 24 Sep 2015 at 12:06

KIA said:
A shared OneDrive folder?

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I think what OP was saying his dad see any form of Cloud storage offered as risky, and he's trying to convince his dad that using WD MyCloud is different and far less risky compare to Cloud storage offered by 3rd party due to (insert anything we can think of here).

miikeeyy92 · 24 Sep 2015 at 12:35

Marine-RX179 said:
I think what OP was saying his dad see any form of Cloud storage offered as risky, and he's trying to convince his dad that using WD MyCloud is different and far less risky compare to Cloud storage offered by 3rd party due to (insert anything we can think of here).

Yup, thats exactly the issue. Yes putting stuff online technically means someone could probably nab it if they really could be bothered, but realistically...!

Nasher · 24 Sep 2015 at 13:44

You won't be able to see it from the outside unless you purposely set up your router to allow it through (but even then you can still encrypt it to secure it). It wont automatically be exposed to the internet. It's just a NAS with a fancy name.

It's not the same thing as OneDrive, iCloud etc. which are online cloud systems controlled by someone else. They are certainly NOT secure, no matter what they try and tell you!

KIA · 25 Sep 2015 at 13:27

miikeeyy92 said:
Yup, thats exactly the issue. Yes putting stuff online technically means someone could probably nab it if they really could be bothered, but realistically...!

Does your Dad want to use My Cloud's remote access feature?

miikeeyy92 · 27 Sep 2015 at 14:00

KIA said:
Does your Dad want to use My Cloud's remote access feature?

I'd be using it to put photos on it from elsewhere.

Wucked · 27 Sep 2015 at 15:22

Tell him that young women will find him attractive, that should do it.

KIA · 28 Sep 2015 at 17:21

miikeeyy92 said:
I'd be using it to put photos on it from elsewhere.

I have more trust in Microsoft to do a better job of security than Western Digital.

AFAIK, these devices do not auto-update to the latest firmware, meaning they will be vulnerable until the end-user applies the latest update. I never expose my internal network to the Internet (direct or indirect via a 3rd-party such as Western Digital) if I can avoid doing so.

http://community.wd.com/t5/My-Cloud...-in-WD-My-Cloud-Feb-2015-Firmware/td-p/859330
http://www.wdc.com/en/heartbleedupdate/
http://www.wired.com/2014/04/heartbleed_embedded/

Don_X · 29 Sep 2015 at 21:46

Have you thought of imgur (pictires) or mediafire (more options + all filetypes here) free hosting

MrSniper · 30 Sep 2015 at 23:59

Why not try a in home NAS? for your home or lie to your dad lol?

eddiew · 1 Oct 2015 at 10:14

Buy one that doesn't have cloud in the name?

He might have a point though, I'd be suspicious of a NAS with access-anywhere features and would turn them off.

Maybe you could share a Dropbox or OneDrive folder, and set him up a batch file that moves all photos in it to the NAS box at login?

miikeeyy92 · 4 Oct 2015 at 14:29

MrSniper said:
Why not try a in home NAS? for your home or lie to your dad lol?

to be fair, I'd have probably got away with it if I hadn't had said anything about the cloud in the first place!

A Flickr account would work, but again its online. I'd much rather have everything locally stored.

eddiew said:
Buy one that doesn't have cloud in the name? He might have a point though, I'd be suspicious of a NAS with access-anywhere features and would turn them off.

Maybe you could share a Dropbox or OneDrive folder, and set him up a batch file that moves all photos in it to the NAS box at login?

Thats a good idea..

nox_uk · 5 Oct 2015 at 17:19

miikeeyy92 said:
That buying a WD MyCloud or similar won't 'offer him up to the internet' and be cloned/conned/hacked/insert here?

but it will offer him up to the internet...

Sounds like your dad has his head screwed on.

But to answer your question - get one yourself, and share your photos to your dad from it. He might do the same...

EDIT: if you want to do this relatively securely though, get a synology/qnap/similar and learn about vpn's and firewalls.

Nox

TubbyGreg · 6 Oct 2015 at 22:37

Google drive would be convenient

KraniX · 8 Oct 2015 at 14:17

I can understand your Dad being concerned about his security when it comes to sensitive documents financial spreadsheets but your holiday photos from the Algarve are unlikely to be the top of any hackers list, and even if they did get stolen/cloned/copied so what?

Not like you're going to be blackmailed if someone has a bunch of photos of you and your family eating dinner...

Having a local version + backup is great but if the house is robbed/burns down you lose everything, that would be the way I'd frame my argument, losing all those precious memories etc. etc. - should be job done.

Rustyone · 8 Oct 2015 at 18:04

miikeeyy92 said:
That buying a WD MyCloud or similar won't 'offer him up to the internet' and be cloned/conned/hacked/insert here?

I strongly think my family should have a central hub for all our photos as at the moment they are all over the place with backups of backups here there an everywhere. As we don't all live together also as I am at university, some sort of cloud based system is ideal, but Dad won't seam to have any of it!

Your Dad is right, always believe him, the Cloud

Hype name lol, is full of Admins passing thier time browsing your photos etc.