[119880] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Flash Media Servers as Open Proxies
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Marshall Eubanks)
Thu Dec 3 13:23:48 2009
From: Marshall Eubanks <tme@americafree.tv>
To: Ray Sanders <ray.sanders@villagevoicemedia.com>
In-Reply-To: <4B17FEDA.9000307@villagevoicemedia.com>
Date: Thu, 3 Dec 2009 13:22:41 -0500
Cc: NANOG list <nanog@nanog.org>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
On Dec 3, 2009, at 1:09 PM, Ray Sanders wrote:
> Marshall,
>
> Did you find out via published article, or your own research?
> Either way I'd like (if you don't mind) more information on this so
> I can investigate what impact there may be on our systems.
>
Via a DMCA take-down letter for a Cricket match that was sent to
AmericaFree.TV, and subsequent research into what was going on.
Regards
Marshall
>
> Thanks!
>
> 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
>>
>>
>
>
> --
> -"Prediction is very difficult, especially about the future."
> -Niels Bohr
> --
> Ray Sanders
> Linux Administrator
> Village Voice Media
> Office: 602-744-6547
> Cell: 602-300-4344
>
>
