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People saying rustdesk should realize the Chinese connection it has. I would not use it for that reason.
It's open source, and the relay's are e2ee (and audited), but they can also be self hosted.
Do you have actual technical issues with rustdesk?
Do you have an alternative software you would recommend? I hate when people spread FUD or say "don't use/do this" without actually providing an alternative. Drives me nuts. Because if you don't present an alternative to a software that someone needs, your complaints are kinda meaningless and a waste of everybody's time because they're gonna end up ignoring the complaints and using the tool they need.
RustDesk is not fully open source, there are closed source parts for it.
Currently there is no good alternative unfortunately.
Lmao stop spreading more FUD. They have a paid, proprietary web UI to make management and administration easy. But you can get all the critical components needed to actually run the software from the source.
This is just racism btw. FOSS software is FOSS software regardless of the race of the people doing it.
Whew! Thought I'd missed something.
oh no, rustdesk does have some significant problems. I could give you a nice list. It's just that nobody cares, they don't matter, and we don't have a good alternative.
This user's main account is Hotznplotzn@lemmy.sdf.org (probably). You can take a look through their post history to get an idea of why they might make this comment...
Sure, I get that. I was just wondering about the Chinese connection bit.
Oh...I already did. LOL
IIRC, somebody tried to trace the company back to its owners, but the chain ended with a company that is likely Chinese. One of the earliest company-hosted relay servers was also located in China based on its IP address. The company now runs multiple servers on various continents.
Some people also freaked out when the company started offering paid, binary server images and services that added extra features like a management console, assuming (incorrectly) that they would replace the basic, no-cost, open-source images.
I actually can't find any evidence of this. The company appears to be headquartered in Singapore, CEO'd by an American dude.
Definitely not. If it would be 100% open source, but rustdesk is not FOSS.
We investigated rustdesk for critical infrastructure and decided that it cannot be used, because some parts of it are not something you can review.
Brother it is 100% open source. whatever part you failed to review was not something you could not review. You can fully compile it and self-host. It has no binary blobs required for it to function.
I'm sorry whatever 'team' you think you're on is literally incompetent.
Unpack that. Why are you suspicious of Rustdesk? Open source/inspect code, direct p2p connection...perhaps I am missing something. School me.
RustDesk is not 100% open source, it has closed source parts. It has installed suspicious certificates.
We investigated on using it on critical infrastructure, and decided that cannot use it because of these issues.
I dug into this, and it looks like it has been fixed: https://github.com/rustdesk/rustdesk/discussions/6444#discussioncomment-12039260 , and no longer does that.
So Rustdesk can be used entirely open source (since the proprietary management web UI is not critical), and it no longer installs certs.
So maybe it had problems a while ago, but it looks clean in these regards now.
They must likely have linking towards government, use it with just that in mind
Bruh doesn't realize everyone can see he's posting from his gooner account 😭
Hey! This is good instance, don't judge!
You came to this thread to be a racist chud and made a complete fool of yourself. If you don't want to be mocked and judged, I don't know what to tell you other than be better.
My comments about about rustdesk being Chinese had zero to do with race. If it would be Russian I would say exactly the same. RustDesk tean have done questionable things, so it is quite certain that they have governmental links.