There are 3,111 exposed home streaming systems in South Africa which can be taken over by hackers

Plex, the gift that keeps on giving, because people put it in, and IOT things are inherently insecure, and are almost always left both with default credentials, and with them deliberately exposing ports as well, and announcing themselves to all and sundry. Biggest breach was Lastpass, who lost the entire customer database, and who also had the worse thing that the database was encrypted by a very weak encryption, and this meant it took only a few hours of work to get all the high value customers.
 
Real truth - there are millions. Cameras, most home automation devices, "smart" TVs, fridges, washing machines, routers, APs, etc, etc, etc

Justanotherguybythesea said:
Biggest breach was Lastpass
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Cisco SD-WAN, Okta, ConnectWise....

The list is really long and really depressing
 
Crowley said:
Also, Plex is also mostly free.
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It's also free if you already paid for it...so why would you change?

And 3,1110 hosts running Plex <> 3,110 exposed hosts.

You can bang your head against my 32400 all day, good luck!
 
I'll give Silo a shot when it's easy to install but Plex has priced itself out of the market imo... at least my market.

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bwana said:
I'll give Silo a shot when it's easy to install but Plex has priced itself out of the market imo... at least my market.

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I agree on their crazy pricing now. I got my Plex pass when it was much cheaper.

Maybe if Silo grows and has apps for every device it will be a contender but for somebody who uses Plex on some of my TV's it's a no-brainer.
 
Smiggles said:
Profiles on shared content for one.

To each their own. A 12 year old feature suggestion that's still open is a joke https://forums.plex.tv/t/allow-managed-users-to-have-access-to-shared-content/86229
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For me Plex does what it needs to do.

I run my server and myself and my 2 kids can watch what they want when they want on their own devices.

We do not NEED to access to Plex when we are not at home. Why would we?

You do not NEED Plex Pass...it is just a luxury add-on.

Regarding the 12yo open suggestion...who gives a schit?? It is completely irrelevant to this discussion.

You can use Plex for free and it works perfectly well...for free.
 
Crowley said:
I agree on their crazy pricing now. I got my Plex pass when it was much cheaper.
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Fair enough but for new subscribers it's (intentionally) ludicrous.

Crowley said:
Maybe if Silo grows and has apps for every device it will be a contender but for somebody who uses Plex on some of my TV's it's a no-brainer.
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Silo is a long way from being readily adopted. In the meantime I've got the free plex for the home and Jellyfin for when I travel.
 
bwana said:
Fair enough but for new subscribers it's (intentionally) ludicrous.


Silo is a long way from being readily adopted. In the meantime I've got the free plex for the home and Jellyfin for when I travel.
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Curious as to why not use only Jellyfin? I have only Jellyfin, so am curious if missing anything interesting.

Basically use Swiftfin on AppleTV, Jellyfin runs in a container with watchtower on my NUC, and family member can remote with tailscale to watch externally (and I do the same if airport etc., then usually use Findroid for offline download as it syncs playback properly).
 
Johnatan56 said:
Curious as to why not use only Jellyfin? I have only Jellyfin, so am curious if missing anything interesting.

Basically use Swiftfin on AppleTV, Jellyfin runs in a container with watchtower on my NUC, and family member can remote with tailscale to watch externally (and I do the same if airport etc., then usually use Findroid for offline download as it syncs playback properly).
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I run Jellyfin on an old mac mini but the content is stored on my NAS and it takes ages to update the JF library, I guess because the format of the drives in the NAS. Plex picks up new content almost right away.
 
bwana said:
I run Jellyfin on an old mac mini but the content is stored on my NAS and it takes ages to update the JF library, I guess because the format of the drives in the NAS. Plex picks up new content almost right away.
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Just to scan through? Mine is a minute or two, issue is more picking up new files, doesn't work correctly for container with NTFS on host due to file system. I just have a hook in qbit to trigger a scan on complete (on download complete you can trigger external script, have that trigger scan), else you can have the scheduled scan trigger more often.

The newer Jellyfin version did noticeably speed it up.
 
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