when reading through the jellyfin with chromecast guide i realized that it would probably be less effort to just let the casting api be public, with the added bonus that i could then cast my library to any device that supports it. but that seems like it would paint a giant target on the server.
what’s the recommended way of doing stuff like this? ideally i want to be able to go to someone’s house and just play some of my media on their tv.
not that any of this is doable in the near future, since i’m behind cgnat and won’t get my colocated bounce server up until spring.


Missconfigurations allowing bots and shit hacking you. Overblown paranoia mostly if you just take some precautions
Okay thanks for mentionning overblown paranoia, that’s what I have.
What kind of exploitable server misconfigurations are we talking about here?? Brute forcing won’t work because fail2ban, right? I’m a noob and deep down I’m convinced that my homeserver is compromised and has beenpart of a bitcoin mining farm for years… Yet, not a single proof…
The very first Linux server I deployed on a VPS was hacked almost immediately because of my ignorance. The bot gained entrance, and they supplanted a miner rig. Now, on a tiny VPS, it’s pretty easy to tell if you’re running a coin miner because all of the resources will be pegged. However, I got to thinking, on a corporate server, if they did manage to do this, it would almost be undetectable until someone started reviewing logs.
Corporate servers will usually have some degree of SIEM implemented, and at least automatic audit log monitoring.
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Aren’t zero day very specific? Or maybe it’s become a very generic term.
Anyway, I am under the impression that either it’s suddenly very simple to hack into EVERYONE because someone zero dayed the wireguard protocol and there a major flow in it, it’s a shitshow, for all, for some, just me or nobody, whatever. Or it’s a very targeted attack on me personaly, and that’s a whole other story and the means to protect my pictures of my cats and my cool public domain movies collection are different (think social engineering). Also port 22 being bombarded by brute force attempts so don’t choose a password that’s 6 letters thanks.
I KNOW I am missing many things, but still, I don’t get it.
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React2Shell is exactly the shitshow situation yes. Suddenly we are all at risk. But in this case, I’m sorry to say that my cats’ pictures are worthless.
Your point on nginx/wireguard makes me think that it might be better to htaccess through a reverse proxy than relying on a built in login system. For exemple, I should deactivate jellyfin’s login and put it behind an htaccess at the proxy’s level. Is that completely dumb?
Anyway, I clearly need to research “threat models” and cyber/infosec more. Thank you very much!