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[–] FreedomAdvocate 13 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Plex followed best practices and made sure that in the event of a data breach your accounts were safe, and alerted us promptly to the breach and reassured us that nothing private/of value was compromised.

JellyFin knowingly leaves multiple API endpoints with zero authentication.

I know which one I prefer, and it’s not the one with gaping security holes marked as “won’t fix”.

[–] filcuk@lemmy.zip 5 points 11 months ago (1 children)

People don't seem to understand that no-one can reasonably stop a breach today.
The question is whether the attackers got anything of value and how easy they got in.

[–] anas@lemmy.world 0 points 11 months ago (1 children)

This breach was, in fact, very preventable. Plex didn’t need to force users to authenticate with a central server to access their own self-hosted media in the first place.

[–] FreedomAdvocate 5 points 11 months ago

That’s not how “preventable” works.