mherger wrote: > > The interesting point is, that I have the feeling that the number was > > falling the last months but now is raising again. > > Interesting indeed: I've been monitoring "squeezebox" rather than LMS. > But numbers seemed to grow in the past weeks, and significantly dropped > over the past few days (-15%). > > I was wondering how I should handle this situation. These users have a > serious security issue they should know about. But am I allowed to > "hack" their system in order to protect themselves from the bad hacker? > > -- > > Michael
I'm afraid the simple answer is NO it would be extremely unwise !! If you "hacked" (not sure if thats even the right term as these systems are wide open) I'm very sure it would be seen as illeagal in many countries. A large and sticky warning on the home page of the forums would be wiser. Whilst the situation is quite serious I see noting that can really be done about it, if the "hacks" are just waking people up at obscene hours hopefully a message in the forums will get more attention. I note that there are a lot of v7.9.0 and more than a few v7.9.1 in the list of open LMS's meaning people update (or is done automatically) so a software change may work to help. I was thinking that not responding (unless specifically allowed) to the router address (or gateway) may work. That way those that use VPN can turn it on but those who forward ports will have to come to the forum to ask why their forwarding no longer works. Edit: Nothing much can be done about the 7.7.5's Jeff *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
