Since that means I need new routers, this is going to get expensive. I guess it's time to set up private VPN's and use remote desktop everywhere.
Well gah! I liked TeamViewer, and it was practically the last bastion of PC remote control software, with LogMeIn and the rest all having gotten rid of their free and low-cost tiers. So you guys need to think this through, because you're placing a lot of trust in TeamViewer, far more than you do on Google. But one of the easiest ways for it to be hacked would be hacking an end-point I regularly use. And I use Gmail, and Drive, and I'm thoroughly screwed if my Google account ever gets hacked. I mean, for all the clamoring for end-to-end encryption, and not using the cloud to store files (Dropbox), or even emails (Gmail), and we have a bunch of smart people here who leave their computers open for remote access by a company they don't pay a cent to and/or behind a lame shared account password. Having said that, and putting aside account access security, I have a question for those who run TeamViewer 24/7 on computers in which they keep important data (browser histories, cookies and passwords suffice).Īren't you the least bit worried that TeamViewer itself has access to your system 24/7? Do we have any idea how many employees at TeamViewer could access customer systems if they wanted to? Do we know what they log, what data they retain? Anything more permanent than an event, I tend to advise a VPN+VNC setup, or SSH into a local server, and VNC over a tunnel. I've also used it at work, where I've setup paid accounts that help me manage all of one event's computers in one place (think public info displays, etc). I've used it in the past for family remote support (mostly temporarily "download this and run it so I can help you" when Skype desktop sharing isn't enough).