daniskarma

IP addresses are fairly public.

In order to get that kind of infection there need to be a serious vulnerability. None of the services I expose have those kind of vulnerabilities, and I keep them updated.

A Zero-day may be possible, but it can happen with any software.

Any way, even if some of my services got infected that way, I have them all in docker containers. If they managed somehow to insert any malicious software it would have disappeared in the next restart of the container.

And in order to have a software that breaks out of the container it would need to also have some sort of zero-day docker exploit. Two zero-days needed for accomplish that...

Every expose software I have is running on a caddy reverse proxy. And caddy is the only authorized author on my firewall so it gets more difficult to try to run an unexpected malicious software through it.

Any software can have zero-day exploits for that matter.

I don't think jellyfin vulnerabilities could lead to a zombified machine. At least I've not read about something like that happening.

Most Jellyfin issues I know are related to unauthorized API calls of the backend.

I have had jellyfin exposed to the net for multiple years now.

Countless bots probing everyday, some banned by my security measures some don't. There have never been a breach. Not even close.

To begin with, of you look at what this bots are doing most of them try to target vulnerabilities from older software. I have never even seen a bot targeting jellyfin at all. It's vulnerabilities are not worth attacking, too complex to get it right and very little reward as what can mostly be done is to stream some content or messing around with someo database. No monetary gain. AFAIK there's not a jellyfin vulnerability that would allow running anything on the host. Most vulnerabilities are related to unauthorized actions of the jellyfin API.

Most bots, if not all, target other systems, mostly in search of outdated software with very bad vulnerabilities where they could really get some profit.

You can share jellyfin over the net.

The security issues that tend to be quoted are less important than some people claim them to be.

For instance the unauthorized streaming bug, often quoted as one of the worst jellyfin security issues, in order to work the attacker need to know the exact id of the item they want to stream, which is virtually impossible unless they are or have been an authorized client at some point.

Just set it up with the typical bruteforce protections and you'll be fine.

It doesn't really makes much sense.

The amount of power is the same. They don't get more power by voting a pope every 5 years rather than every 30 years. They still vote for the pope, the person in that position is always there because it was voted by the Cardinals.

If something it would be the opposite. Selecting a person for a longer period would give you more power as your decision is more time in place unable to be challenged.

China will be the best country in the world the same day fusion reactors will be available. Always in ten years. No matter when you read this.

"I hope you collapse" is my new go to insult.

Not at all. I have my instance sitting on 100MG of RAM and 0% cpu usage. There's only 3 users that barely use it, but there it is.

It scales by number of users.

It's true that it's a resource hog, due to being written in python (who the hell though that), but it all depends on usage.

I selfhost a matrix instance just for myself and my bots. And send myself notifications to the phone client element. I can even trigger a fake VoIP phone call for really important stuff.

Notifications come through as any other message app notification. And calls do the same.

In order to get all notifications and not destroy your phone battery I found out that you need to download the google play version as you need google services for notifications.

I doubt is satire as the project was truly linked with trans groups.

Probably they just count as experience things that are probably not truly experience or maybe there's a lot that's being untold there.

Just last week I was setting up a matrix server.

I considered conduwuit but I had a feeling this might happen. Happy to stick with Synapse. It's just a shane that it's written in freaking python.