FULL DISCLOSURE: Data Collection in the Process of BotNet Takedown
General
We at Emby believe in privacy, and as such we don't have any telemetry in place, we do no datamining, we do not store and correlate any connection data, user information and server ids - which means that we have no way to identify and know anything about the owner of a specific server.
In an emergency situation like the recent BotNet takedown, it can happen that it is needed to weigh out one good against another and we can only assume what the majority of users would prefer (be
Yes, it had to be like that. This wasn't a virus which acts autonomously. It was a backdoor to turn Emby Servers into BotNet nodes. In case of a BotNet, there are people sitting at the other end, having lists of their active nodes in front of them and the ability to quickly execute arbitrary scripts or binaries which can be transmitted and this needs to be setup just once and then it can be assigned to an arbitrary number of nodes for execution.
Of course, those hackers are monitoring the f
