On Mon, 2012-07-09 at 17:12 +1200, C. Falconer wrote: > Aidan Gauland wrote, On 07/09/2012 03:32 PM: > > I need to install Hamachi to connect to my friend's Minecraft server, > > but I'm reluctant to give proprietary software root access to my > > system. I've already done so for drivers, but I have no alternative > > when it comes to that (if I want to make full use of my hardware). > > What do you guys think? Can I trust it? What's the company's > > reputation like? There's an unreferenced statement on Wikipedia that > > the client is open source, but I have not been able to confirm this. > > I do not trust any product that needs to route your traffic through > their servers.
Yes, that's the other half of the problem. > Who's forcing you to use hamachi? Your friend cos its easy for him to do? Precisely, although, to be fair, he wouldn't have a clue how else to set up a VPN, and it's a home server without a static IP. He's not forcing me to use Hamachi; Hamachi's proprietary protocol is by being incompatible with anything else. There's a big difference between security conscious and paranoid. We shouldn't trust something just because it's from a large company with something to lose. (Remember the Sony rootkit?) But that's not the same as "ZOMG THE GOVERNMENT IS TRYING TO GET INSIDE MY COMPUTER AND MY HEAD!!11!" --Aidan _______________________________________________ Linux-users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.canterbury.ac.nz/mailman/listinfo/linux-users
