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Rustdesk No security audit, not even in roadmap (lemmings.world)

submitted 3 weeks ago by dawid@lemmings.world to c/opensource@programming.dev

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it is a concern to me because there is no plan to do security audit despite people asked about ti in the past.

https://github.com/rustdesk/rustdesk/discussions/8392

https://github.com/rustdesk/rustdesk/discussions/4968

Not in their roadmap

https://github.com/rustdesk/rustdesk/discussions/918

people had concerns about the company:

https://www.reddit.com/r/rustdesk/comments/11nu94y/is_rustdesk_a_scam/

As HN: RustDesk Installs Chinese Root Certificates

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39256493

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[–] boredsquirrel@slrpnk.net 13 points 3 weeks ago

Rustdesk is strange. It may just be a nice tool with some edges. But they failed to submission to Flathub for example because they wanted very high privileges with no explanation like read/write on all files.