Risk of using public trackers (lemmy.ca)

submitted 1 year ago by Policeshootout@lemmy.ca to c/piracy@lemmy.dbzer0.com

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I have sonarr, radarr, gluetun and qbittorrent with overseer allowing my family to request movies and automatically download. I only have public indexers in prowlarr (1337x, kickass torrents, etc.)

This NAS also has a lot of important data like photos and documents.

I am used to vetting my torrents pretty thoroughly before downloading but now it's all automatic.

What level of risk am I running with my data when downloading things in this manner? Is there a chance of malware getting onto my NAS? Ransomware? Is the risk pretty minimal?

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[-] Double_A@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

This NAS also has a lot of important data like photos and documents.

Those should be backupped! And no, the NAS alone is not a backup, otherwise yo wouldn't be worried.

[-] Policeshootout@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 year ago

It is backed up to a another drive that's in a separate building. At least the most important stuff syncs.

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