Re: [Avid-L2] Remote desktop (win)

All security is a complex risk/benefit equation so without knowing the
details... Mac or PC, what remote software, how carefully setup,
etc... there's no way to be specific.

However, setting up a machine for remote access is usually quite low
risk for the same reason Mac is safer than Windows -- nobody cares.
Most malicious attacks are "mass" attacks with a very, very low cost
to benefit ratio. Hacking Remote Access is a one-at-a-time affair
with a very low payoff unless the victim has something of real value,
that is, it's extremely hight cost to benefit ratio. So nobody does
it unless there is a very high payoff. In other words, unless you are
a bank, or a sensitive government installation, the odds of anyone
even bothering to try to break into your remote access is probably
close to zero.

My only advice would be to use a decent password and keep the password
secure. Password insecurity is the biggest threat to almost
everything having to do with computers since your biggest threat is
people you know or work with snooping around your stuff.

tod

On Feb 15, 2010, at 2:50 PM, Job ter Burg (L2B) wrote:

>
> So how (un)safe would it be to use some form of remote access that
> would
> allow me to acces my two studio machines from home over the internet?
>
> I have no idea how to set it up (that would be the next question),
> but I
> would like to know how (un)safe such a setup is.
>
> Basically, I would like to check in on my machines, for instance to
> make
> sure if a certain MetaFuze transcode session has been completed or
> is still
> running, or a render/mixdown, stuff like that.
>
> Thanks for any insight in this matter.
>
> --
> Job ter Burg
> film editor - NL
>
>

Tod Hopkins
Hillmann & Carr Inc.
todhopkins@hillmanncarr.com

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