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
> 


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