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WARNING / TERMS OF USE / LICENSE
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RetroNAS is a compilation of existing opensource products.
RetroNAS is made available under the MIT license
https://github.com/retronas/retronas/blob/main/LICENSE
Due to the nature of retro computing, many of the tools and protocols used in
this project are COMPLETELY INSECURE. It is at the users behest which tools
are installed and as such all liabilies are transfered to you as the user in
the use of RetroNAS.
Most of these tools offer little to NO ENCRYPTION of neither data nor passwords,
some tools offer access to your system WITHOUT any AUTHENTICATION, and some of
the protocols have known EXPLOITS that cannot be fixed due to their legacy
design. It is your responsiblity to secure your infrastructure.
The RetroNAS team only support use of this software on a PRIVATE NETWORK
A private network is considered one where at the very least the RetroNAS is
located behind a firewall that denies inbound traffic from the internet.
DO NOT expose a configured RetroNAS to the public INTERNET
Doing so may result is unintentional DATA LOSS and or exposure of your network
and subsequent contents beit computer and/or data to BAD ACTORS. It is your
responsiblity to secure your infrastructure.
The services RetroNAS installs will attempt to run as unprivileged user accounts
where possible, but the RetroNAS installer scripts themselves all run as root
(the "Adminstrator" account in Linux). These have the power to dramatically
change and break working systems, so please ensure you undeerstand the consequence
of the code you are about to run, i.e code review etc but the onus is on you.
RetroNAS provides automatic compilation, installation and configuration of many
third party tools these tools may be vulnerable to supply chain attacks of which
we have no control over at installation time. If a project is shown to have been
exploited we may remove or modify installation support at any time. It is your
responsibility to ensure the options you are selecting for installation are as
per the third party project authors intent and the onus is on said authors to
secure their products.
If you are UNSURE if ANY of the ABOVE statements apply to you.
DO NOT CONTINUE to use this project.
If you have questions in regards to RetroNAS use and/or risk you may
ask your question on the github discussion boards for the project.
The RetroNAS team may in turn use this enquiry to revise support
documentation for the benefit of the project
https://github.com/retronas/retronas
The RetroNAS team are retro computing ENTHUSIASTS
The RetroNAS team should not be considered computer, networking nor security
experts and as such you are responsible to EDUCATE YOURSELF to the use of
and/or risks associated with the tools in this project.
This is NOT A NAS project for use with modern computing
If you understand the above fully and accept all subsequent liabilties as your
own in use of this project type AGREE at the prompt otherwise cease use of this
project immediately.