• Saik0@lemmy.saik0.com
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    8 hours ago

    And I’m talking about the reverse problem. That you would need to expose it in order for it to work with other users… OTHERWISE be on the hook to support users via VPN + Jellyfin, or in the case of TV apps, Router+VPN+Jellyfin. That doesn’t scale up well the moment you have someone not in your house that uses your stuff. It doesn’t have to be pirate TV. Could just be a kid at college.

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      7 hours ago

      Yeah I don’t think anyone sane would disagree. That’s what forced the decision for me, to expose or not. I was not going to try talking anyone through VPN setup, so exposure + whatever hardening practice could be applied. I wouldn’t really advocate for this route, but I like hearing from others doing it because sometimes a useful bit of info or shared experience pops up. The folder path explanation is news to me; time to obfuscate the hell out of that.

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        7 hours ago

        Yeah I don’t think anyone sane would disagree.

        Exactly… But I get chastised for pointing the problem out. Called a shill because I care about security.

        I RUN JELLYFIN. I HAVE IT RUNNING. Others you recommend it to should be made aware of the risks that’s all I’m trying to point out.

        The folder path explanation is news to me; time to obfuscate the hell out of that.

        You can get around the MD5 issue (a bit) by obfuscating your path. Instead of /movies/title (year)/title.ext… make it /mnt/MHhzTiM57Fv4wWQmkmb4DLDwVKoB628KBQzhBHQjGQVtsjhwRrFNU2NtRGJ4dUpg/movies/title (year)/title.ext and you’ll probably be pretty damn immune to the problem as it stands now… But just blatantly telling people to use Jellyfin isn’t a good answer here without that background.

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          7 hours ago

          Awesome, thank you, this is exactly what I was thinking when you mentioned it earlier.