Plex themselves literally recommend it and show a warning icon if it’s not accessible outside your local network. I always thought it was insane. To make matters worse their Synology package doesn’t auto update itself. I would guess there are a ton of vulnerable boxes sitting out there.

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Orygin an hour ago | parent | next [-]

What get me the most, are the rabid Plex fanbois swearing that having jellyfin open on the internet is such a baaaad idea and you should spend ~50~ ~100~ 500 bucks for a sub to Plex which totally don't expose the same risk

	▲	NoMoreNicksLeft 16 minutes ago \| parent [-]
		I wouldn't go that far. It's just Jellyfin is ugly as shit.

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iAMkenough 2 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

If you’re exposing anything on Synology to the Internet, you’re already playing with fire. Their packages (like Container Manager) are usually very far behind on security patches.

I think the current version of Docker engine Synology uses was end-of-life 2.5 years ago.

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thenthenthen an hour ago | parent | next [-]

Yeah, please avoid Synology, really. If you have it or need it DONT expose it to the internet.

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chrisweekly an hour ago | parent | prev [-]

Synology NAS - an ugly doorstop with data loss resulting from its half-baked post-purchase attempts to enforce hardware vendor lock-in. (Was working fine w/ a Western Digital drive, the next day, boom.)

	▲	quietsegfault an hour ago \| parent [-]
		I’ve had a synology NAS that’s been running for 8 years. No data loss. I use random drives I had laying around. It’s not the fastest or fanciest, but I never had any experience with lock in. It’s got a 3rd party 10g card, more memory … nothing locked in.