Re: VNC viewers: Clipboard of host automatically sent to remote machine

[Mario Vilas <mvilas () gmail com>]

> > IP KVM, in which the foreign server basically gets only inbound
> > Keyboard and Mouse and outbound uncompressed pixels.
>
> That is *precisely* what VNC is: an open-source IP KVM.

No, it's not. I won't go into the differences because other people
already did in this thread.

> And please don't turn this into "you're stupid", because I've seen
> others with the same setup. As mentioned, I know of a government agency
> with highly competent IT staff who had a similar setup: normal and
> sensitive work is on the desktop/notebook and Internet access (which is
> considered insecure) is on a remote machine, with a viewer on the desktop.

That proves nothing. For example, there are many SCADA devices owned
by government agencies  connected to the Internet, but that doesn't
mean it's a good idea to do so.

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enemy of the state, the other serves and protects the people. When the
military becomes both, then the enemies of the state tend to become
the people.”

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