mherger wrote: > I do understand that many like to be able to access their music while on > the road, at work, away from home. But please do NOT configure your > router to forward those ports to the internet. While this is easy to do, > it's dangerous. LMS was not designed to be used this way. Any user out > there (incl. me and your neighbor's kids you hate so much) could access > your LMS and do all kinds of things. > > - blast crazy stupid music at full volume in the middle of the night. > And then again five minutes after you turned it off. Repeat. > - install the Gallery plugin and have it scann all your folder of all > your disks, causing a crash sooner or later > - install any plugin they want, including their own development, doing > things we don't even know about > > On systems where LMS is running as root/admin the last one is > particularly dangerous. We have evidence of these kinds of "attacks" > almost on a daily basis now. See various threads in this forum. > > Now you might think "who would be interested in finding my IP address > and port used?". Your neighbor's kid. Or some bored soul seeking some > kick. Because it's easy. There are search engines who list your computer > and port. No need to figure this one out yourself. And the have some > fun. NOT! > > So please: review your router's settings. Block those ports. Install a > VPN if you need access to your music.
+1 !!!!!!!!!!! I found 4,342 mainly insecure worldwide instances with extreme ease *Players:* SliMP3,Squeezebox3 x3,Receiver,SqueezePlayer,PiCorePlayer x3,Wandboard *Server:* LMS Version: 7.9.0 - 1475786002 on Centos 7 VM on ESXi 6 on Dell T320 *Plugins:* AutoRescan/BBCiPlayer/PowerSave/PowerSwitchIII/Squeezecloud *Remotes:* iPeng8/Orangesqueeze/PC/Jivelite *Music:* 383GB,1269 albums 17756 songs 4381 artists mostly FLACs *Want a webapp ?* See http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?104305-Webapp-for-LMS ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Jeff07971's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=49290 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=107165 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
