Teamviewer has a history of lying about serious security breaches. The company’s networks have been breached before and they literally spent years denying it and blaming it on their customers: https://www.securityweek.com/teamviewer-confirms-it-was-hacked-2016/
The spokesperson also clarified that the cyberattack was not in any way related to the 2016 incident that led many to believe the company’s systems had been breached. At the time, many users reported that their computers were accessed by hackers through TeamViewer, but the company blamed the incidents on password reuse.
Welp, time to expedite that switch to RustDesk, I guess!
Seems interesting. I’m a bit concerned that they don’t see encrypting direct traffic as an issue though https://github.com/rustdesk/rustdesk/wiki/FAQ#i-only-use-rustdesk-for-a-few-devices-on-my-local-network-with-no-internet-connectivity-can-i-still-use-rustdesk-with-direct-ip-access
Why? They offer it as a fallback solution you have to explicitly enable, I can imagine it’s not their focus given that the regular connection is encrypted.
IMO, it shows security is not a priority for them. Just because you’re on LAN it doesn’t mean encryption is insignificant. There also isn’t really “LAN” there are just networks, so this necessitates using some sort of server even in the case where you have an IPv6 or IPv4 address that would otherwise allow you to directly connect to your peer.
Seems anydesk is doing better than TeamViewer
I’m just here to appreciate the amazing stock photo, I’m picturing the photographer placing the tape over his desk feeling so cool about it.
