It sounds a little dire, but I could imagine if in some places of the world governments get worse and want to fuck people, it could be really easy to pin cybercrime on them.
Could the titular jellyfin server be caught by shitty mac or windows (or god damn smart tv) spyware?
This question is so broad that the only answer is yes, of course anything is possible.
do you think it’s a realistic threat? like if you were to travel to the US?
I’m in the US and I don’t think merely running the software is a realistic issue. Torrents etc. will get you flagged for civil enforcement.
If you’re traveling into the US, first of all, don’t, but if you are anyway, expect to turn on and unlock any phones, laptops, etc., and they may be taken out of your sight, and cloned and/or have malware implanted. But jellyfin isn’t a factor in that scenario.
yeah, honestly I would think veracrypt, a LUKS partition, or such would be a bigger factor
I think once you give your IP to the satellite, the deapsea cables will start tracking all jellyfin packets
Oddly, GPS is something I trust more than modern alternatives. GPS might be USAF’s doing, but they specifically made it open use and self-locating. While modern smartphones, unfortunately, have a shitton of snooping with GPS, the concept requires no such transmission: Your GPS device triangulates it’s own position based on the signal strength of the orbiting satellites, and displays a marker on a map.
Meanwhile, several American corporate competitors exist that, and the Chinese GPS-ish system also, requires internet to determine location based on data that should remain private.
Is it possible? Yes.
Is it particularly likely that hosting a Jellyfin server would attract unwanted attention? I’d say probably not, unless you’re doing something else that might draw scrutiny.
If you’re serving content over HTTPS, it’s really not that big of a deal either way. HTTPS isn’t a silver bullet, but it’s not enabled on Jellyfin as a default and it’s actually a real PITA to setup.
Of course, like someone else here said, anything is possible. Since we’re talking broadly, they wouldn’t necessarily even need the spyware if you leak anything else network wise, meaning even if you use Linux it could be caught.
