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I had the creepiest experience happen to me

Added by bob winters over 5 years ago

Last night I had a connection over the Internet to TVHeadend watching a couple of TV Channels. The connection was using VLC Media Player over HSTP and the ip address was registered from another ISP from within NZ. I had port forwarded both 9981 and 9982 because a couple of months ago I was testing the tvheadend android app over the Internet which required those ports. HTSP didn't have a password but for port 9981 I had set a password. I also have a secure reverse proxy for port 9981 to port 443 - tvheadend.mydomain.com

So.. What on earth? I wasn't me and I highly doubt it was anyone I know. I'm absolutely stumped and very creeped out about it. How did they (if it was a they) connect to it, find it and know how to stream a channel?

For now on, I have disabled port forwarding for 9981 and 9982 and for streaming I'll use Emby/Plex tvheadend plugins going forward.


Replies (2)

RE: I had the creepiest experience happen to me - Added by saen acro over 5 years ago

If you see my drop list your experience is for near nothing ;)
There are some cases where even credential was stolen.

Forget about streaming without credentials.
use ProgTV with auth /persistent authentication/ windows and android app.

RE: I had the creepiest experience happen to me - Added by Rudi Hendrix almost 4 years ago

I had the same thing today. Where can I enable a login for my TV Headend configuration?

I saw all sorts of recordings being added to my planned recordings!

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