If you don’t have ports open, you’re not an internet participant. You’re just spectating.
Comment on Plex vulnerabilities being exploited in the wild to drop a cryptominer
frongt@lemmy.zip 3 weeks ago
I’m guessing this requires it be exposed to the Internet. Please stop exposing services to the Internet.
pHr34kY@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
sanpo@sopuli.xyz 3 weeks ago
That’s pretty much the number one reason people say they won’t move to Jellyfin.
Even though exposing your shit to Internet is a terrible idea for most people.
Auli@lemmy.ca 3 weeks ago
I think people over blow how dangerous it is. Or maybe its better most people dont. I don’t know I know the issues and I take measures to mitigate them. Then if someone gets in they would be limited to vlan. And if somebody gets out of that good wasted so much effort for nothing since I have nothing that would be worth that much trouble.
And before someone says identity pretty sire that has been in so many other leaks overt the years the information is pretty old.
frongt@lemmy.zip 3 weeks ago
Even without data compromise or pivoting, they can still mine crypto on your hardware, launch a ddos, spam email, do botnet stuff, or host CSAM.
fonix232@fedia.io 3 weeks ago
Not if your Jellyfin is set up correctly.
Read-only, rootless container with only the cache/transcode/config folders mounted RW+noexec - ideally both with a volume size limit.
Reverse proxy only the absolutely minimal ports needed, with some security measures (e.g. crowdsec transparent proxy, hooked up to both your firewall and reverse proxy to block malicious actors.
magic_smoke@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 weeks ago
Just throw a wireguard tunnel on your router and call it a day.
blue_morpho@lemmy.world@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
That’s fine for your personal remote access but that doesn’t help your 80 year old mother in law watch videos of the grandchildren on a Roku.
seralth@piefed.seralth.com@piefed.seralth.com 3 weeks ago Slap a vpn on her computer or but a shitty dell from good will. Point the Roku at that and forward the traffic…?
Like this is a solvable setup and forget about it for the next 5 years. Sort of set up.
magic_smoke@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 weeks ago
Been thinking of throwing together a set top box with everything made up for my grandfather so he can stream stuff from my jellyfin setup.
I just need to find an ezpz enough to use frontend.
lama@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
WG works for us, but isn’t scalable once it comes to sharing. It would provide too much friction for a lot of people
sanpo@sopuli.xyz 3 weeks ago
It’s really not. If people are too lazy to install one VPN app and import the tunnel config, then they can pay for paid streaming instead.
- seralth@piefed.seralth.com@piefed.seralth.com 3 weeks ago
I manage it with netbird.
Just have em install netbird, if it’s on they can connect to my website. If it’s off they can’t.
It’s literally three steps for each person, there’s ways to make this easy. It just requires the host to put in the leg work
Auli@lemmy.ca 3 weeks ago
Kind of defeats the purpose of Plex and Jellyfin.
peppericecream@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 weeks ago
*defeats your purpose of Plex and Jellyfin
I just want a media server. I have no use case to make it available to the public internet.
baddu@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
And who the fuck are you to speak for me? Some of us actually leave the basement.
The only reason to expose it raw to the internet is because your hosting a piracy service.
You can easily keep everything inside of a wireguard VPN and expose nothing directly.
couldhavebeenyou@lemmy.zip 3 weeks ago
How do I get my grandparents tv on a vpn
peppericecream@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 weeks ago
You could put a Site2Site VPN on their router and your router. Bonus points if you use firewall rules to allow only your media server instead of your whole network.
@couldhavebeenyou @Seralth If they have internet, you don't really need to. Get a seedbox account at ultra.cc, which also allows you to install the *arr suite and Seerr as well as your choice of Plex or Jellyfin.
Once that's all setup (it's a bit of effort, particularly the arr setups), the Plex/Jellyfin server is exactly like a private netflix, which you can use Seerr to add basically any show or movie you want to it.
This is much better than trying to set them up on a vpn that you won't be there to handle the problems.
That said, ultra.cc also provides Wireguard as an installable app, so you can connect via wireguard, if necessary.