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Rustdesk alternative? (sopuli.xyz)

submitted 2 weeks ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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I've been using rustdesk for while, and it works very well for me. The news of it being somewhat opaque, and developed from China, makes me a bit nervous.

Is there a FOSS equivalent that won't make me jump through hoops, and be easily installed by someone else remotely?

I would like to be able to have it run at startup in Linux and windows, have a fairly complete feature set, like file transfer, copy paste, etc.

Also it'd be great if it could be easily installed by someone else remotely. I do SMB support, usually onsite, which is why it's not cost effective to pay for a Teamviewer or Anydesk license.

I'm taking a look through flathub, but recommendations would be greatly appreciated.

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

You are not running the software cause you do not trust the ppl running it? So you do host the software anyway? Just because it is OS and just because you can run it on your own hardware does not mean you can blindly trust it.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

You can literally monitor where the data is being transmitted. There is no need to trust anyone. If it was sending data to anything that isn’t your relay server, you’d be able to easily prove it.

[–] [email protected] -2 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

It could install software that transmits the data some time else. Basically something virus would do. The code can be hidden somewhere or loaded from somewhere with simple code.

Those are basic tactics used for years by malware. If just simply monitoring would be enough to protect against malware then we would have way less problems.

You should never run untrusted code or code by untrusted ppl.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Sounds like you made up your mind on RustDesk being malware, even though there is no proof. All of your replies are "could/can" without even a hint of factual information on RustDesk being some sort of Chinese backdoor, so I guess we can stop this discussion.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 weeks ago

I am talking about it in general. If you trust it or not depends on you. I am just saying that the argument that it is OS or that you can host the server yourself does not automatically mean that it is safe. That applies to any software.