On 10/10/2011 3:15, Invisible wrote:
> Have you ever tried explaining all that over the phone to somebody who can't
> even work a mouse properly yet?

Yep.


> Of course, you would also need to poke a hole in the firewall for that to
> work.

No you don't.

> And make sure I edit whatever settings it is necessary to turn on
> encryption.

It's encrypted by default.

> And add a secure password. (The current admin password on the
> machine is trivially breakable.)

That's kind of stupid. You'd be better off with no admin password at all.

> ...or I could set up a *real* VPN, which is *actually* secure...

What's insecure about RDP, other than you don't actually believe it's 
encrypted and/or you don't understand encryption?

(*I* know the ways in which it's insecure, but I suspect you don't, which 
means setting up your own VPN is unlikely to be more secure. ;-)

-- 
Darren New, San Diego CA, USA (PST)
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