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didn't even know this was in chrome how secure is this?
by wehadfun 13y ago
didn't even know this was in chrome how secure is this?
- Zhenya 13y agoNot a direct answer but Chrome team is very security conscientious. Furthermore, it is probably more secure than using a 3rd party app and handing over to them credentials to your machine.
- drdaeman 13y ago> it is probably more secure than using a 3rd party app and handing over to them credentials to your machine Well, unless you consider your computer Google-owned, this is using a third-party (Google) app and handing over to them credentials to your machine. However, trusting a third party for connection initiation is the only option unless one has a computer that's globally addressable and accessible from the Internet. Still, as (IIRC) Chrome Remote Desktop does not provide end-to-end authentication (i.e. peers don't visibly - in a manner acknowledgeable by the end-user - authenticate that they're genuinely securely communicating to each other without third party inbetween), so it's probably less secure, if compared to a VPN-to-home service.
- eli 13y agoIt isn't in Chrome until you download and install the "Chrome App" for it: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/chrome-remote-desktop/gbchcmhmhahfdphkhkmpfmihenigjmpp https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/chrome-remote-desk... AFAIK the app contains binary code for each supported platform, so it's really more like Chrome-as-app-store than anything else.