Plugin, Shell Access and Firewall Security

I'm in love with FreeNAS. Unfortunately, over the last year I've become increasingly aware of the many security risks that seem to be overlooked by the community. I'm not saying that everyone is as security conscious as I am but I find it somewhat staggering that default out of box FreeNAS configuration leaves so many holes open for a would be attacker.

When setting up file system permissions for my plugins I noticed that the method for FreeNAS to check status and change configuration for the...

Plugin, Shell Access and Firewall Security