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[–] kieron115@startrek.website 1 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (1 children)

None really, just wondering what the issue with opening it up is if it has TLS? In 10+ years I've never had my Plex server compromised and it just uses TLS. I do change the default port but that's it.

[–] neclimdul@lemmy.world 2 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Plex logins go through their login server so you'll also have login throttling and probably other bot protections.

[–] kieron115@startrek.website 2 points 4 months ago

They also do some SSL shenanigans to get every user a unique, valid public certificate created during setup. https://words.filippo.io/how-plex-is-doing-https-for-all-its-users/