[Fwd: Flash Media Servers as Open Proxies]

[Jon Kibler <Jon.Kibler () aset com>]

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Anyone have more details regarding this?

Jon
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Jon R. Kibler
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> From: Marshall Eubanks <tme () americafree tv>
>
> Date: Thu, 3 Dec 2009 12:45:54 -0500
>
> I recently found out that the Adobe Flash Media Server (FMS) can  
> operate "out of the box"
> as an open proxy, enabling other people to steal server resources and  
> bandwidth. Furthermore,
> I also found that there is an ecosystem of pirates taking advantage of  
> this "feature" to
> illegally stream sports events (and maybe other stuff as well). Each  
> event uses multiple (stolen)
> servers and can amount to thousands of streams and Gbps of consumed  
> bandwidth.
>
> I believe but am not 100% sure that there are similar problems with  
> Window Media Servers.
>
> I would like to hear (off-list) from people who have experience  
> fighting this so that we could
> maybe pool techniques. I will try to write this up further later.
>
> Regards
> Marshall Eubanks
>
>
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