[isalist] Re: OT: VPN Applications
- From: "Thomas W Shinder" <tshinder@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <isalist@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 23 Feb 2007 12:45:10 -0600
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It actually works pretty good for what it is. However, it should be
considered malware in any compliance driven network.
Thomas W Shinder, M.D.
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MVP -- Microsoft Firewalls (ISA)
> -----Original Message-----
> From: isalist-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> [mailto:isalist-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Jim Harrison
> Sent: Friday, February 23, 2007 12:22 PM
> To: isalist@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: [isalist] Re: OT: VPN Applications
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> - "verifiably" - how?
> - How do the reconcile "zero-configuration virtual private networking
> application" with the need to install their code? This is the same
> marketing spew that spawned the "clientless VPN" noise surrounding the
> very same "SSL VPN" BS.
> - "encrypted and authenticated with industry-standard algorithms and
> protocols" - so they're using CHAP? "Industry-standard" is
> meaningless;
> *exactly what* "algorithms and protocols"?
> - "Hamachi is the first application to mix seemingly unrelated
> networking technologies in one powerful package" - not true; all you
> have to do is read anyone's market spew about the L&G "SSL VPN
> technology"
> - "Great effort went into designing and polishing the Hamachi user
> interface" - ..so much so in fact, that they completely overlooked the
> actual network behavior?
>
> (almost) All cynicism aside, this "smells" like YALSP that will bugger
> your protected clients.
> ..now I have to play with this one, too...
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: isalist-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> [mailto:isalist-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]
> On Behalf Of Ball, Dan
> Sent: Friday, February 23, 2007 9:43 AM
> To: isalist@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: [isalist] OT: VPN Applications
>
> Ran across this today: http://www.hamachi.cc/
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>
> This program creates a virtual network adapter on your computer,
> allowing you to set up a "verifiably secure" peer-to-peer network with
> other computers across the Internet.
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>
> Anyone see this program before? Is it as secure as they claim?
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