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Submitted via IRC for carny
This Ubuntu 19.10 Bug Shares Your Media Folders Without Warning
A major bug in Ubuntu 19.10 could be automatically sharing the contents of your Pictures, Video and Music folders with other users on the same network.
The problem is caused by Ubuntu’s new media sharing feature (powered [by] the Rygel media server) which is supposed to [be] disabled by default.
But scores of users running Ubuntu 19.10 in a non-GNOME Shell/Ubuntu session report that rygel autostarts on log in, with no warning or indication provided that it is running in the background.
As a result, the full contents of ~/Photos, ~/Videos and ~/Music folders are accessible on local area network, (LAN), i.e, available to anyone and anything else connected to the same Wi-Fi point.
And that’s not good if you live in a house with others, especially with a content discovery device like a smart tv or games console active at the same time you are.
(Score: 3, Insightful) by jmichaelhudsondotnet on Monday November 11 2019, @03:44PM
Came here to say this.
I really, really want to like ubuntu but the model of this development has over and over again lead to things like this.
Even if it didn't look malicious, and systemd, it is so incompetent that the entire organization must be run very poorly.
And these are for bells and whistles people are trying to get away from, like they are doing everything they can to make ubuntu into os x, when people dont want os x.
Or like they listen to only their most uniformed users who ask for things to help them have to think less, and is they are the type of people who are into that sort of effort, then we already know we can't trust them.
thesesystemsarefailing.net (but especially the corporate-non-profit-whatever software devel model of canonical and mozilla)
(which is to say, if you are trying to help, don't sell out even if they promise they aren't corporate. They are corporate, and they are not buying your idea to help your users, but to harm them)