If someone can access my airport timecapsule wireless can they see my backup files too?If someone can access my airport timecapsule wireless can they see my backup files too?
I have 4 iMacs in the office and we are using the Airport Time Capsule 3TB to wirelessly back them up.
It is connected to the main wireless modem router.
I'd like everyone in the office (iMacs, PCs and guests) to connect to the internet through the Airport Capsule. (As I may have to move the main router out into another room to connect it to the built in ethernet cable network).
I'm concerned, though, that anyone who can access the wireless internet functions of the Timecapsule will also be able to see and copy the backup files on there.
Should I be worried?
In normal operation, Macs can only "see" the backups that have been made from their own Mac. They cannot "see" the backups made on another Mac. Try it and see.
With some tricky workarounds that only a devious person would use, it is possible to "see" the main backup file of another Mac......but they would also have to have the user name and password for that Mac.....or actually be using that Mac to see inside the main file and access specific backups.
A bit safer and probably more reliable approach would have a backup hard drive connected to each Mac.
But, even then someone who really wanted the files would probably just take the hard drive.
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