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How/why would I trust "xrdp" and/or pinggy.io? It sounds like I'm allowing them unfettered access into my home network.

• josephcsible 2y ago
  xrdp is the standard Linux RDP server and is probably provided by your distro, which you have to trust anyway. And that `ssh -R` command only gives pinggy.io access to the host:port you specify, not your entire network.
  • _mlbt 2y ago
    In theory what you’re saying is true, but in practice if someone gains access to a machine on your network it becomes significantly easier to gain access to additional machines on your network.
  • hedora 2y ago
    It's had remotely exploitable vulnerabilities in recent years, and I know of no Linux distribution that configures it to listen on an external port by default. Pinggy does seem to support incoming IP whitelists, at least.