Lacie ethernet disk mini and firewalls

[Gee]

Quick question for all you networking experts out there. I just bought a Lacie 250GB ethernet disk mini, and have connected it to the spare ethernet port on my airport extreme basestation. It works fine and I can mount it as a share. So far, so good.

However, my airport is plugged into a broadband adsl modem, and neither have a firewall. Does this mean that any files I put on the disk would therefore be hackable from the big bad internet? Do I need to get a modem with an integrated firewall? Is it not a problem because it's only a disk, not a computer? Not sure how any of this actually works, but thoughts would be much appreciated.

G

 

[alexprice]

Quick question for all you networking experts out there. I just bought a Lacie 250GB ethernet disk mini, and have connected it to the spare ethernet port on my airport extreme basestation. It works fine and I can mount it as a share. So far, so good.

However, my airport is plugged into a broadband adsl modem, and neither have a firewall. Does this mean that any files I put on the disk would therefore be hackable from the big bad internet? Do I need to get a modem with an integrated firewall? Is it not a problem because it's only a disk, not a computer? Not sure how any of this actually works, but thoughts would be much appreciated.

G

Replace you broadband modem with a broadband router, i.e: Netgear DG834, its got a firewall built in and an ADSL modem.

Alex

 

[Gee]

Replace you broadband modem with a broadband router, i.e: Netgear DG834, its got a firewall built in and an ADSL modem.

Alex

So is that a 'yes', my data on the disk is at risk/accessible from outside?

 

[alexprice]

As long as you use passwords on you setup then the chances of your data being accessed is VERY small, so 'yes' to answer your reply.

Alex