• kieron115@startrek.website
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    20 天前

    I’m talking average enough to see an article, or hear about it from a friend/coworker, then follow the insanely easy setup directions for Windows. I know plenty of people who aren’t really “computer people” but know enough to open a port because they had to to get a game working at some point or another. Those people probably wouldnt notice “hey this thing is going to http maybe i should rethink this…”

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      20 天前

      These are going to be the people who think it’s smart to just open up RDP and SSH to the wide web though…they shouldn’t be forwarding ports…they should use a VPN.

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        20 天前

        I had to explain to one of them why RDP is a bad idea lol. Thats kind of my point - average people tend to only know enough to be dangerous, not to do things safely. Or as Shakespeare said - "The fool doth think he is wise, but the wise man knows himself to be a fool.”

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          Yeah. This is why you don’t encourage normies to port forward…they make everyone a domain admin and open up RDP…

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            Yeah I had to convince them to try RustDesk so they would stop using RDP. Like I said, a lot of people just know enough to be dangerous.