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Originally Posted by stomachmonkey View Post
The main box is my personal server. The only executables on it other than what the OS requires are builds/source code from our developers that I put there. And I'm the only user with access to it. The only external network connections it makes is for software updates direct from Apple and the connection to it internally is not persistent.

I'm not worried about that box being compromised. I'm worried about hardware failure as some of the drives are aging out.

I did a stint as Director of CA's consumer security group.

Not my first rodeo.
Gotcha - you know what you are doing -- but there are many out there that think "NAS and RAID storage will save me" and only realize that isn't always the case AFTER they lose data...

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