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.

  • filister@lemmy.world
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    10 months ago

    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.

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      10 months ago

      It sound like you are personally offended by this because you are Chinese, but as an European, I share your sentiment. I don’t trust either Chinese, nor American solutions. After all, after Snowden, we know American solutions are systematically compromised.

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        10 months ago

        I am not Chinese, I am born and raised in the EU and I am Caucasian.

        I am just irritated that FOSS software is being questioned just because it might have been developed by Chinese programmers.

        And for the record you can’t be sure that any commercial software isn’t compromised or it doesn’t have backdoors, it just makes detecting those backdoors a lot harder.

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          Foss from places with known APTs are more secure than non-foss too personally. It would be daytime robbery compared to an inside job to implement spyware. It’s been done and should be monitored for though.

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      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.

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        10 months ago

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

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          10 months ago

          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.

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            10 months ago

            Oh yeah I’m not denying that.

            I’m just saying its short sighted to take any shots at China when the west are authoritarian themselves.

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          The US government is in fact not authoritarian. As for influencing private business that is a real concern but at least here it isn’t illegal to stay private. I can vote for my officials and criticize the government without fear.

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            The US is especially authoritarian.

            And if you think you actually have a choice in candidates, let alone any good ones you’re sorely mistaking.

            Voter suppression is a widely used tactic to influence votes away from low socio economic areas and black communities.

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      10 months ago

      “So your point is…”

      Perhaps the single most dishonest way to begin a sentence

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        10 months ago

        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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          10 months ago

          Is it really impossible to critisize a leftist even the slightest bit without them flying completely off the handle? I only critisized your wording.

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            10 months ago

            So now I got labelled leftist? That’s very presumptuous of you, don’t you think? You know there are more shades of gray and in normal democracies we have more than two political parties. But nice of you trying to generalise my whole personality, based on a couple of sentences, written in a social platform.

            And for the record, English isn’t my native language. And surprisingly there are other reasonable human beings living outside the US (surprise, surprise) who might have slightly different world views from you. The world doesn’t revolve around the US, no matter what your politicians are telling you.

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              10 months ago

              Literally only leftists repond with 5x as much text as whatever you said to them

              It’s like I’m psychicly DDOSing you

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                10 months ago

                I can only feel sorry for you and would strongly recommend you to seek some specialised help.

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                  You really nailed the proportional response this time. It’s crazy that this started with me criticizing your wording, and now it ends with you saying I need “specialized help” like you have any authority on the matter at all. What can I say? My ability to pick out dishonest, manipulative, snake-like people remains on point.