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What's your thoughts on Rustdesk?
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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.
The US government is a dangerous authoritarian government and they heavily influence private business in very nasty ways.
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.
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.
The difference is that there is SOME accountability in the West and we can, to an extent, influence who leads us, especially in Europe.
So if flagrant misuse does appear, there’s a much higher risk of it being discovered and of heads rolling in the west.
Think of the number of exposed scandals in the West and compare that to China.
And I’m not throwing shit China’s way and thinking the West infallible. I’ve been to China plenty and worked with awesome Chinese people plenty. There’s a lot to love in China.
But let’s not get lost in whataboutisms. Where would you rather raise your children?!
Yea, we do....
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.
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.
https://www.reuters.com/article/idUSKBN27D1DO/
https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/a-brief-history-of-the-nsa-attempting-to-insert-backdoors-into-encrypted-data
https://archive.is/CFLMV
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/may/31/denmark-helped-us-spy-on-angela-merkel-and-european-allies-report
Damn, if only the US government didn't have a proven track record of putting backdoors in commercial software.
But hey, at least they are not authoritarian state so backdoors originating from the US are all fine, right?
Seriously, if you make the effort to create a big piece of software and then you open source it and then someone opens a ticket in GitHub asking you those questions, how would you feel?
Because neither "what is the source of the software" nor "potential influence by the CPP" has anything to do with the software itself.
You are free to conduct a security audit of the project and based on the results you can open this thread but saying that they have deleted issues opened on their GitHub page that have nothing to do with the software itself is a pure form of witch hunt and I am genuinely surprised how many people have agreed with you.
Deleting issues shouldn't even be allowed. You can just close the issues are irrelevant and ignore them.
I mean the same thing can be said about the USA, also if there are that many problems why don't you just check the code, it's one of the main strengths of open source software.
The USA isn't nearly as bad as China. I can access or create any news source for example. You also don't see people posting about GNU being compromised by the NSA.
Its always good to verify though.
Yeah you are right on that but there still are many backdoors on plenty of applications that are made by American companies. We also know that some agencies wanted to put backdoors on linux kernel etc. In that case why would you not trust an open source app, and trust a closed source one just because of the nationality of developers
The problem is that China is very bad about backdoors. Free software and transparency is really the only answer to not having backdoors.
As an example China put backdoors in some Chips though Huawei https://www.wired.com/story/huawei-backdoors-us-crypto-ag/
My concern is that the people behind Rustdesk are kind of a mystery. Many projects with have a publicly known dev where you can track the origin and current developments behind a project. Rustdesk just has a user called "rustdesk" for the most part. The people behind that are not known. What complicates the matter is reports of them removing issues that question the integrity of the code authors. It would make me much happier if they ran a security audit on Rustdesk. Hopefully as it gets more popular someone will either find that it is mostly fine or that it is a security nightmare.
I use it because there aren't a lot of options. Maybe someone else will create something more transparent.