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Plex security monitor

Develop a tool that alerts Plex users about vulnerabilities and suggests immediate mitigations. Protect home media servers from emerging threats.

Why now

Recent Plex exploits show home media servers are becoming hacker targets.

Who for
Plex power users
Business model
Premium alerts, pro features
Effort
A weekend

Plex users often don't know when their systems are vulnerable.

Create a lightweight monitor that checks for known vulnerabilities and applies patches.

Privacy-conscious users would pay for automated protection.

Start with basic vulnerability scanning.

Risk is Plex might build this themselves.

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