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What's your thoughts on Rustdesk? (lemmy.zip)

submitted 7 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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So I've been using Rustdesk with a self hosted server for business and personal use now for some time. However, it is definitely the sketchiest foss software I've used. It seems to be based in China but the developers keep lying and saying its in Singapore.

Here is a list if everything I've found:

https://www.reddit.com/r/selfhosted/comments/14kjvkg/community_consensus_on_rustdesk_with_all_the/

https://github.com/rustdesk/rustdesk/discussions/1159

https://www.reddit.com/r/rustdesk/comments/y230hf/my_rustdesk_client_try_to_communication_with/

https://www.reddit.com/r/selfhosted/comments/10ppntj/reminder_about_the_shadyness_of_rustdesk/

https://www.reddit.com/r/selfhosted/comments/109tn1i/rustdesk_server_117_supports_ipv6_now_selfhosted/j42pf4m/

https://www.reddit.com/r/selfhosted/comments/uurta8/_/

https://www.reddit.com/r/selfhosted/comments/y80sw1/as_someone_that_knows_nothing_about_virtualremote/isxvib2/

https://youtu.be/JIAdEGX_sIU

It seems that now the clients and OSS server are completely foss which is good. They also no longer have public servers in China according to them. In the client itself it also now has better defaults so you are less at risk of getting attacked.

It still is sketch but it now is slightly less sketch I guess? Either way its not ideal.

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[–] [email protected] 12 points 7 months ago (4 children)

If you have a custom DNS, be sure to block all the relay domains they use and block the respective ports from external access. Even if you disable the settings to avoid relays, they don't acknowledge them and continue to try and phone home somewhere. Just checked the latest version on my phone, which has no relay setting configured, before commenting on this and sure enough, still true. Just logged an entry to rs-ny.rustdesk.com on my DNS, which of course was blocked. Desktop app has an option to disable them if I recall, but it never worked for me.

That out of the way, it is a very good local network software for remote access. Way faster than the alternatives I've tried.

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[+] [email protected] -8 points 7 months ago (7 children)

So your point is that a FOSS application made in China is sketchy by default or what exactly?

Damn, you Americans are really brainwashed that everything that originates from China is bad.

You know you are free to use TeamViewer or Anydesk and no one is forcing you to use Rustdesk.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 7 months ago (2 children)

It's literally a third-party service that let's others control your desktop. Doesn't matter how FOSS the clients and end servers are, one also needs to trust the intermediate servers. If those running them are caught dishonest about which country they're located, the trust evaporates. China or not.

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

"So your point is..."

Perhaps the single most dishonest way to begin a sentence

[–] [email protected] 5 points 7 months ago (6 children)

Can you answer me if he will have questioned this piece of software if it was developed in the US, Europe or any other part of the world? And he presumes that by default if something is developed in China must be riddled with backdoors.

Same with the Huawei's network equipment, that the US forced so many governments not to use. And to the best of my knowledge this was never proven.

Shall I also remind you that the US isn't spotless either https://www.vice.com/en/article/5d9bp8/us-spies-allies-south-korea-pentagon-leak

U.S. officials have been scrambling to mend ties with its allies following a leak of secret documents showing that the U.S. spied on its friends—again.

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[–] [email protected] 23 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (7 children)

Software and hardware from China is known to be compromised on arrival. The CPP is a dangerous authoritarian government and they heavily influence private business in very nasty ways.

As for Team viewer and Anydesk, they are proprietary and can not be trusted. At least Rustdesk is Libre. The most concerning part about Rustdesk is that they delete issues that question the source of the software or Rustdesk's potential to be influenced by the CPP.

[–] [email protected] 23 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (4 children)

The US government is a dangerous authoritarian government and they heavily influence private business in very nasty ways.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 7 months ago (3 children)

If I am remembering correctly, Australia also has laws that allow the government to force private companies to build backdoors. I think it was the Ass Access Act.