hamachi

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On 31/07/06, Norman Silverstone <norman at littletank.org> wrote:
>
> > > Would I be able to use hamachi in a case where I have a DHCP LAN (with
> > > both Linux & Windows PC's but have hamachi run on the Ubuntu gateway?
> > Hamachi will let you connect to that PC that you have it running on,
> > after that you'll be able to connect to whatever the pc you're
> > connected to can see
>
> I have been thinking about putting hamachi on my Dapper desktop and
> wondered if any security problems would arise. Could someone please let
> me know if hamachi is safe to use.

How long is a piece of string?
Security isn't a product or a moment, it's a behaviour.
In other words you can't "buy security".
If you set tour Passwords used in Hamachi with _very_ strong
passwords, changed them regularly, never told them to anyone or wrote
them down then set the passwords on your Dapper desktop to be also
very strong and changed regularly, plus encrypted
(http://www.faqs.org/docs/Linux-HOWTO/MindTerm-SSH-HOWTO.html) all
traffic that was sent over the encrypted Hamachi sessions then that's
pretty secure, but then if you _really_ wanted security you'd unplug
your Internet connection ;-)

I find Hamachi to be safe enough for Home use... If we were low on
funds or maybe some other reason I might use it for work, but overall
I find that it's a pretty safe product.

Having said that though.. who knows what is going on, in that 3rd
party server...? 0.o


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