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DO NOT USE THIS

This is a massive security risk and they have had so much controversy. They also routinely delete Github issues and discussions that question them. To top it off they are likely Chinese run.

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China is good though? At least that ensures they aren’t a CIA operation.

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12 points

China bans encryption and doesn’t allow you to use anything to thwart surveillance. I can’t say I want that in a remote access tool.

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China bans encryption

Most confidently wrong statement I have read all year.

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in my book they are more of a risk than the USA. The USA already has political influence, for china to do it they need to use more extreme methods, like infiltrating your computer and use it and perhaps you as their tools

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10 points

Not really. At this point, you’re having to pick between two surveillance states.

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3 points

or neither, when cloosing open source tools worth their salt. in more and more fields such tools appear, fortunately

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11 points

Source:

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4 points

Just lookup “Rustdesk controversy”

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I had the impression that it has a Russian connection, but anyways, it’s good to be in the lookout for such things

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2 points

What?

Rust doesn’t solve all security issues in codebase?

People should take note of that; I surely did…

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11 points

Is there a good, free, cross platform alternative?

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HopToDesk. https://hoptodesk.com

It’s a fork of RustDesk.

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Rustdesk but even more sketchy

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Actually they seem kind of sketchy too. https://github.com/rustdesk/rustdesk/discussions/2778

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2 points

How do they improve on security and privacy ?

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depends on your definition of good, and free

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4 points

This comment is helpful

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14 points

Tail scale and sunshine/moonlight would work

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I use DWService. Now everyone go ahead and tell me why I’m stupid.

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6 points

Maybe meshcentral?

It depends on what you are trying to do. You also could do something like Tailscale + TightVNC

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Meshcentral is discontinued because it was based on Intel ME (official program completely sucks) and when the dev was fired by Intel, he obviously lost any interest in the thing. All downloads even removed, only the source is available

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I personally use nomachine, and tailscale for VPN access. Genuinely no complaints, it kinda “just works”.

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