Comment on Rustdesk's lesser known features

• passenger@sopuli.xyz ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  It seems they were trying to hide the app being Chinese, added a trusted certificate on your machine wkthout prompting, complaints about not really being open source, etc. It doesn’t look very good to me at this point.

  Search around a bit and you will find these issues being raised by people, at the same time the answers fron the team seem very dismissive and amount to please no politics here.

  Check the wikipedia page edits as well, weird stuff. I don’t like weird stuff when choosing a remote control software.

  Rather paying Anydesk than using this. At this point at least.

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  • queerdo@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I did some digging and there’s no real basis for most of these claims. The company seems to be backed by a weird commercial OSS VC, with a founder with a hand in crypto bullshit, but that doesn’t mean that the application is insecure. Also, for what its worth, I couldn’t find any links to China outside of the rendezvous server thing.

    I checked the wiki page edits - not sure which one you’re referring to but I didn’t see anything malicous or suspicious.

    This article summed it up well hackaday.com/…/this-week-in-security-forksquattin…

    TL;DR it’s not an issue

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    • BCsven@lemmy.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

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    • passenger@sopuli.xyz ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Chinese company profile

      tracxn.com/…/__hVv0PUAcFB2LfybEPDvvPkJf14Mc7PfmkS…

      News piece about them

      inf.news/…/b99963560cecae8e1dfe347c68e36ff8.html

      None of this means much else than that I will not use it myself, at least yet. I don’t trust it

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      • queerdo@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        That news source is a joke. Go to the homepage and its filled with weird anti Chinese stuff about cannibalism in Shanghai! The first article on the homepage is:

        Emperor Kangxi imprisoned him and raised him like a pig, so out of boredom he could only have children for fun, resulting in him fathering 29 children.

        This is not a credible news source.

        The “Chinese company profile” you linked is a VC research page, not an authoritative source.

        There could be weirdness going on here though despite all that. The claim they are based in Singapore while Huabing Zhou of Wuhan University clearly has input (when I looked him up, the RustDesk team page was a search result on DDG, despite his name not appearing on the linked page) is a little odd.

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  • rtxn@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    If this is as significant an issue as you imply, please link some credible sources.

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    • passenger@sopuli.xyz ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      It doesn’t need to be, I just won’t go near it if they communicate like this and do stuff like change their users’ systems without prompting. You can do a search for rustdesk controversy and have a look yourself. Just looking at how they hide the company’s chinese origins and their communication style when they are asked for clarification… That’s enough for me. Everyone should be paranoid when installing apps, and this is for remote control, no less.

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      • queerdo@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Can you please provide any sources for any of your claims?

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• BCsven@lemmy.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

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