You can, using the Hijack software, access the songs via the Hijack web server across a network. If you use CharcoalGray99's XML interface, this is actually quite a spiffy way to connect to the empeg across the network.

However: You need to set a password in the hijack options in config.ini that would prevent read/write access to it. By default, no password is needed to modify the data if you're using hijack and you know how to set the drives RW.

Password-protecting Emplode is a different issue. I don't remember whether that can be done or not. I seem to recall that it could either be done with a config.ini option, or by configuring Hijack to prevent that kind of access on the network port (leaving USB and Serial OK for connecting with Emplode). Anyone have instructions for that part of it?