Re: [gentoo-user] {OT} Allow work from home?

[lee]

Rich Freeman <rich0@g.o> writes:

> On Sun, Jan 17, 2016 at 6:38 AM, lee <lee@××××××××.de> wrote:
>> Suppose you use a VPN connection.  How do does the client (employee)
>> secure their own network and the machine they're using to work remotely
>> then?
>
> Poorly, most likely.  Your data is probably not nearly as important to
> them as their data is, and most people don't take great care of their
> own data.

That's not what I meant to ask.  Assume you are an employee supposed to
work from home through a VPN connection:  How do you protect your LAN?


> [...]
>> What's the Linux equivalent of RDP sessions?  Some sort of VNC seems to
>> usually require a lot of bandwidth, and I wouldn't know how to run it as
>> a service so that someone could just start a client (like rdesktop) and
>> log in to the server as they can do with Windoze servers. --- I only
>> found x11rdp which appears to be incompatible with current X servers.
>
> There is stuff like xtogo and other NX-like technologies, but the
> trend seems to be towards client-side rendering which makes them
> perform about as well as VNC.  I mostly gave up on it ages ago - it
> was fairly fragile to keep working as well.  I do know one of the
> maintainers - perhaps it has gotten better in recent years.
>
> However, while an RDP-like solution protects you from some types of
> attacks, it still leaves you open to many client-side problems like
> keylogging.  I don't know any major corporation that lets people RDP
> into their applications in general.

What do they use instead?

This sounds as if it's basically impossible to work from a remote
location, at least when Linux comes into it at some point.

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