On 10/11/2011 1:29, Invisible wrote:
> So how do you connect to it if it's behind two hardware firewalls plus the
> Windows Firewall?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Teredo_tunneling

> Excuse my scepticism. None of the other Windows protocols are encrypted by
> default, nor even provide the *option* of encryption...

Your incredulity fortunately does not eliminate the encryption.

>>> 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.
>
> Well, yeah. Except that most things that ask you to log in as admin tend not
> to work if the password is blank.

Ding ding ding! That's what I meant. ;-)

> (No, I have no idea why.)

Because it's insecure.

> Still, when it's
> impossible to log in at all unless you're in the building,

Since you weren't aware that Teredo goes thru NAT and firewalls, chances are 
it's not impossible to log in if you aren't in the building.

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Darren New, San Diego CA, USA (PST)
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