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Re: VNC
From: SMiller () unimin com
Date: Fri, 31 Jan 2003 08:06:34 -0500
First, I'm confused about how there can be a new version. VNC was a project of AT&T UK Labs. My understanding is that VNC development was frozen a long time ago. AT&T recently disbanded this entity (according to the Register of some months ago) I believe some of the pieces reverted to Olivetti, but I heard that they had no plans for VNC. Did some former employees take it over to continue development? There is a Windows-only product that we use named TridiaVNCPro that wraps the latest VNC version that I know of in a proprietary shell that provides encryption as well as some console management functions. Marty <marti@videotron. To: security-basics () securityfocus com ca> cc: Subject: VNC 01/29/2003 01:08 PM Hi, I remember inquiring last year about VNC as a network remote control solution. Sincere thanks to all those that answered. We stopped the VNC implementation after reading about all the risks related to the product. Our tech people are coming back and charging... again. My question is simple is the latest version of VNC better than the previous ones and should we allow our tech group to use it to take control of our machines (servers and workstations)... --- :-) Merci Marty!