Hmmmm.. This is most interesting. Have you spoken with Adobe about the issue? I don't have an immediate handle on how they have reacted to security issues in the past. Sane defaults would be nice. :(
You might want to ping Akami as they have substantial operational experience with flash media server. I look forward to a writeup on the topic. On Dec 3, 2009, at 9:45 AM, Marshall Eubanks wrote: > 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 >
