On Jul 9, 2012 3:33 PM, "Aidan Gauland" <[email protected]> wrote:
> I need to install Hamachi to connect to my friend's Minecraft server

You mean the VPN client from logmein.com?

I think in general that logmein are "fine", lots of people stuck in the
Windows world use it to cross security boundaries. It is a favourite tool
of telephone support scammers, but there's been no indication that it is
part of a technical exploit.

There's a mention on the ArchWiki that this client is fully closed. But so
is Minecraft itself (yes, one day they will open it; I believe that promise
but I'm not holding my breath! It's too popular at the moment). So you will
have to decide on a pragmatic basis -- can you get your friend to run a
more open solution (ssh, OpenVPN, whatever) or do you want to get on his
server more than you want to be Free? :-)

-jim
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