While I typically don’t do stupid things like opening attachments willy nilly. After the LTT hack, I started taking measures to secure weak points on my home network.
I started looking for entry points and I noticed that TeamViewer was one of them. I’ve been doing some research on them and results were pretty horrifying such as bank accounts drained and other alternatives don’t seem to inspire confidence with even less functionality. Despite using their free version, learning about their business practices such as cancellation process and customer harassments didn’t help. It seems that a lot of these apps simply give you easy access through even “layered” security.
I’ve come up with a solution that I believe is more secure.
I switched out my router from my ISP’s to a router with a built-in OpenVPN server. Unsolicited connections are only able to come in through 128-bit VPN tunnel via a file generated by the router That needs a password to use. Once on the internal network, Only then is RDP possible.
Is this posture more secure than TeamViewer and applications like it for a home network? Thanks in advance.
One of my use cases: when I’m on the go sometimes I need to edit files with a little more power. So I transfer, access, edit, transfer back.
