atrocity wrote: 
> A friend is finally getting his music online and is looking at LMS
> alternatives due to the fact that, as far as either of us can tell, all
> communication via the web interface, smartphone/tablet clients, etc. is
> vanilla http and not https.
> 
> I don't recall ever reading complaints about this here before and am
> wondering if anyone else views this as a real problem. His concern is
> that somehow malware will ride in somehow and...I'm not entirely sure.
> 
> One specific complaint he has is plain text login to the server, which
> makes me wonder if there's any reason to have a password in the first
> place if you aren't opening ports (bad idea!) and aren't trying to keep
> kids out.
> 
> Is he overreacting or are we fans just accepting the risk because
> everything else about LMS works so well?
> 
> He's talking about going to dark side and getting $ono$ on the
> assumption that it's more secure.
> 
> Any and all advice is welcome.

No significant risk. http via port 80 on an internal network is
commonplace. 
I'd hazard to say that most of us don't use a password on the web
interface at all - it gets in the way of things.



Jim
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