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I’m pretty sure that screenshot is Wayfire, not Weston.

I don’t know what those mean and don’t really care. I simply corrected you when you said Wayland cannot be used remotely.

it doesn't network

https://github.com/any1/wayvnc

What about the certificate installation on windows?

That’s simply bad software practice, which was fixed once pointed out. Fact is that if they had done this on purpose, they wouldn’t have changed it and instead, would’ve came up with an excuse to keep it the same way.

I never claimed it’s malware

I don’t keep track of who says what on this app. Many people in this thread have the idea that RustDesk is some sort of Chinese spyware that is secretly transmitting their files to the CCP. If that’s not your opinion, then I guess we are not in disagreement.

There’s no way for the user to know that clicking this button will edit their GDM config and disable Wayland

Yes, that’s the wrong way to do it, which is why they changed it. I’m not saying this is perfect software developed by experts, but the idea that RustDesk should be avoided at all cost is insane, specially when they have fixed every issue that was raised.

The only thing they are missing is a security audit done by a third party, which costs money and I doubt they care enough to pay for that just to stop all the finger pointing.

Bad coding practices is not malware, that just means the devs are not experts. Also, these were fixed when pointed out by the users, which is the whole point of being open source. The only reasonable issue is the direct modification of the GDM config, which required the user to click a button.

If you don’t want the NSA to spy on you, don’t use anything with a modem. Otherwise forget about it.

I didn’t even know it asked for an email for sign up. I just remember the recovery email.

I don't think you are required to provide a secondary email, but you get less features without it.

Sounds like you made up your mind on RustDesk being malware, even though there is no proof. All of your replies are "could/can" without even a hint of factual information on RustDesk being some sort of Chinese backdoor, so I guess we can stop this discussion.

I doubt somebody running from a government is taking their tips from wired.com

They do store it and have provided it to authorities in the past. In their defense, modern laws require you to hand over any data you have or get shut down. But they already knew that, yet choose to ask for it anyways knowing that they have to give it away if asked to.

Steam client needs the XWayland translation layer to work on any modern DE, plus 32-bit libraries (which are not installed by default).