[mythtv-users] Has anyone configured a "semi"-diskless frontend?

[Brad Templeton]

On Fri, Jan 07, 2005 at 08:10:16AM -0700, Adam Felson wrote:
> 
> Why would you have to worry so about security on your LAN?
> Are you worries somebody is going to break into your house, connect
> physically to lan, and spoof a mythbox and watch tv? :-p
> 

Some attacks I can imagine:

    a) Somebody, just to be an asshole, breaks into lots of systems
       and erases all their TV.

    b) A piece of windows spyware/malware (the majority of windows
       machines have malware on them!) connects to your insecure
       backend to insert ads for certain indigo coloured medicines (I dare
       not mention their name for fear this message will be blocked
       by many users)

    c) A cable network pays a sytem cracker to distribute a virus that
       makes everybody record their new show they are trying to promote.


Imagine turning on your TV to see spam videos.   If you can advertise
through illegal hacking, the hard truth is it _will_ happen.  I
wish that weren't so.

What were the figures out there?   Apparently there are tens of
millions of windows boxes out there which are zombies, thralls to
attackers who use them to do DDOS, send spam and so on.  And many of
these machines are behind "firewalls" (or more commonly just NAT)