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Risk of using public trackers (lemmy.ca)
submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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I have sonarr, radarr, gluetun and qbittorrent with overseer allowing my family to request movies and automatically download. I only have public indexers in prowlarr (1337x, kickass torrents, etc.)

This NAS also has a lot of important data like photos and documents.

I am used to vetting my torrents pretty thoroughly before downloading but now it's all automatic.

What level of risk am I running with my data when downloading things in this manner? Is there a chance of malware getting onto my NAS? Ransomware? Is the risk pretty minimal?

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

on linux/unix you can make partitions files non executable.

Maybe you can mount in fstab a partition with the parameter NOEXEC:

Option 'NOEXEC' flag in the mount command does not allow the execution of executable binaries in the mounted file system1. However, when a script (a text file that begins with she-bang line; i.e., a line that begins with #!) is given to some shells (bash), it will run the executable named on that line (e.g., /usr/bin/perl) and pass the path of the shell script as the first argument. The actual interpreter might not be on that mountpoint.

1 The mount command typically mounts a file system. (Arguably, loop-back or bind mounts may be considered an exception to this generality.) In some cases (e.g., /tmp), this file system will contain only one directory.

[0]https://superuser.com/questions/728127/what-does-noexec-flag-mean-when-mounting-directories-on-rhel