VNC security

[Michael Herman]

On Wed, Sep 17, 2003 at 01:09:02AM +0200, Bjvrn Persson wrote:
>Mike Miller wrote:
>> But it might not be a matter of time because it's so much work for so
>> little gain?
>
>How little gain exactly? Your company's trade secrets? The administrator 
>passwords to all your servers? All the money in your bank account?
>
>And let me point out that the work only needs to be done *once*. Not once for 
>every session. I could write the program and then use it daily for years.
>

Thank you, Bjorn.  I agree with you which is why I posted the original.  The
risk is unlikekly but it is there and needs to be understood.  As VNC becomes
increasingly more popular, hackers will try to exploit it.