> This is terrifying. Who runs things like this open to the outside?

A budy of mine has got 30 000 movies and series. Better offer than Netflix (what, easily 4x more choice!?). He's got a 42U rack. He gives free access to his server to his friends and family: it's not a business (so what he risks is also very limited in the country he lives in, for he's not making a business out of it).

It's not because you and I don't run Plex servers accessible from the big bad Internet that others don't enjoy doing it.

Now concerning this miner: I've posted about it in the past here on HN but I only run Jellyfin on my LAN and it's only with throwaway containers: I've got a script that sets up movies/series named/organized the way Jellyfin likes it, then that volume is passed read-only to a transient podman container.

When we're done watching the movie, the podman container is deleted. It's over: it doesn't exists anymore.

All that I care about are data: like family pictures and movies (and, say, other movies).

My Jellyfin server is just a temporary "view" on my actual data.

I don't trust it and don't need to trust it: for it's only future after I'm done watching the movie is to be destroyed.