2019-02-04, 00:13
Quote from LibreELEC News from the News and Announcements page regarding LibreELEC (Leia) 9.0.0 RELEASE
More people are using VPN services for privacy without realising this exposes SSH/SMB/Web services. To combat this problem we have added simple firewall configurations for Home/Public networks; the Home configuration blocks inbound connections from non-private networks, e.g. traffic from the Internet to the public IP address used with the VPN connection.
Like I mentioned before in my now deleted post: there is nothing wrong with using VPN software. As an expat for example, one could use it to (very legally) watch geo-blocked catch-up tv.
More people are using VPN services for privacy without realising this exposes SSH/SMB/Web services. To combat this problem we have added simple firewall configurations for Home/Public networks; the Home configuration blocks inbound connections from non-private networks, e.g. traffic from the Internet to the public IP address used with the VPN connection.
Like I mentioned before in my now deleted post: there is nothing wrong with using VPN software. As an expat for example, one could use it to (very legally) watch geo-blocked catch-up tv.
