Comment on Plex ending support for Watch Together

• smiletolerantly@awful.systems ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Why not? Have had it accessible via the Internet for 4+ years without incidents

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  • possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    What makes you so sure you haven’t been breached?

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    • smiletolerantly@awful.systems ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      Proper precautions and monitoring.

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• accideath@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Well, I do want to actually use it though and have my friends be able to use it just as well.

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  • possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    You really don’t. There are plenty of other solutions. If nothing else you could whitelist there ISP instead of allowing all traffic.

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    • accideath@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      What solutions? Especially what solutions that don’t cost me money and are not overly difficult to implement?

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• riquisimo@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Why not? What precautions would you need to take before doing so?

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  • DreamlandLividity@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    The easiest and most secure solution is probably tailscale. Just VPN into your local network instead of exposing Jellyfin to the internet.

    An alternative I am using is Caddy reverse proxy with Authelia for authentication. So I have to log in to Authelia before I can access Jellyfin. Beware though, it took me like 2 days to properly configure Authelia. It is rather complicated.

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    • possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      Also you could use SSH that’s been properly secured

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• Spuddlesv2@lemmy.ca ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  This should not be downvoted. You should not expose anything straight to the internet unless you know what you’re doing. Use a simple service like Tailscale to create a locally accessible VPN.

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  • riquisimo@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    “Know what you’re doing”

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    “Forwarded a port to jellyfin”

    Surely has some overlap. You want to open other ports, you want to make sure permissions are properly set on the host machine… What else? HTTPS/SSL to avoid someone in the middle grabbing your password and accessing your media?

    Regardless, I’ll look into tailscale. A VPN would have lots of other uses, as there are other applications I would like to use remotely that I don’t want to expose to the internet.

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    • Spuddlesv2@lemmy.ca ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      By “know what you’re doing” I mean “understand the consequences”. Anyone can follow a guide that tells them how to open a port on their router. Understanding that in doing so they’re potentially allowing every malicious actor into their home network is not so straightforward.

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