# Server settings - remote access red badge promoting less security
**URL:** https://forums.plex.tv/t/server-settings-remote-access-red-badge-promoting-less-security/875940
**Category:** Feature Suggestions
**Created:** [April 24, 2024, 3:16pm UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/server-settings-remote-access-red-badge-promoting-less-security/875940 "2024-04-24T15:16:25Z")
**Posts on this page:** 8
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### Author:  [@uidea](https://forums.plex.tv/u/uidea)
#### Post date: [April 24, 2024, 3:16pm UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/server-settings-remote-access-red-badge-promoting-less-security/875940/1 "2024-04-24T15:16:25Z")
Seeing the red exclamation badge every time I visit Server settings, and it’s kind of tempting to turn that on to turn that on, even if I never use it.
Like something is wrong with my set up.
I wonder how many people turned that on just following that thought. How many lost their data, their possessions, their families, their lives. just because of this red badge.
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### Author:  [@tom80H](https://forums.plex.tv/u/tom80H)
#### Post date: [April 24, 2024, 4:26pm UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/server-settings-remote-access-red-badge-promoting-less-security/875940/2 "2024-04-24T16:26:16Z")
Putting aside the drama and the fact that remote access is a regular feature, not a gaping security hole…
What’s your actual suggestion here?
Do you want the remote access status indicator in the settings sidebar to be removed entirely?
Do you want a separate or no icon if remote access is disabled?
Something else entirely?
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### Author:  [@BanzaiInstitute](https://forums.plex.tv/u/BanzaiInstitute)
#### Post date: [April 24, 2024, 4:53pm UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/server-settings-remote-access-red-badge-promoting-less-security/875940/3 "2024-04-24T16:53:21Z")
In 1590, 117 colonists disappeared from Roanoke Island off North Carolina. A thriving community – _wiped out_. Was Plex remote access to blame? We can’t be sure either way, but it makes you think.
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### Author:  [@uidea](https://forums.plex.tv/u/uidea)
#### Post date: [April 24, 2024, 6:23pm UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/server-settings-remote-access-red-badge-promoting-less-security/875940/4 "2024-04-24T18:23:12Z")
Oh I didn’t know can make suggestions.
For off state it’s better to not over-design and just show nothing rather than some “off” indicator.
Here’s both options;
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### Author:  [@pshanew](https://forums.plex.tv/u/pshanew)
#### Post date: [April 24, 2024, 6:59pm UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/server-settings-remote-access-red-badge-promoting-less-security/875940/5 "2024-04-24T18:59:23Z")
> [@BanzaiInstitute](#):
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> In 1590, 117 colonists disappeared from Roanoke Island off North Carolina.
Croatoa(n) my man.
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### Author:  [@BanzaiInstitute](https://forums.plex.tv/u/BanzaiInstitute)
#### Post date: [April 24, 2024, 7:10pm UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/server-settings-remote-access-red-badge-promoting-less-security/875940/6 "2024-04-24T19:10:45Z")
If you know, you know!
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### Author:  [@kahilzinger](https://forums.plex.tv/u/kahilzinger)
#### Post date: [April 25, 2024, 3:01pm UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/server-settings-remote-access-red-badge-promoting-less-security/875940/7 "2024-04-25T15:01:57Z")
Global Warming: Plex’s remote access.
Assignation of Abraham Lincoln: Plex’s remote access.
The Bermuda Triangle; Plex’s remote access.
Roswell, New Mexico: Beta testing location for Plex’s remote access.
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### Author:  [@tom80H](https://forums.plex.tv/u/tom80H)
#### Post date: [April 25, 2024, 3:41pm UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/server-settings-remote-access-red-badge-promoting-less-security/875940/8 "2024-04-25T15:41:25Z")
Let’s stay on topic from here forward.
Crazy conspiracy theories can be fun (especially if the OP kind of initiate them)… better discuss those in the #Lounge