09-17-2008, 04:00 AM
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Neophyte
Join Date: Sep 2008
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Mundane but important
Hi there, I want to work from my home more often, but am often stuck there without information I need from my office PC. If I just had a way to get information from my office pc when I'm away, I could save a lot of time and gas driving to and from. Anyone have ideas how I can securely access stuff from another machine? I've heard of LogMeIn, but I wish it felt more secure.
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09-17-2008, 04:38 AM
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Neophyte
Join Date: Aug 2008
Posts: 3
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Logmein is pretty good for remote access. However, at work we use another program called Phonefactor for logmein to provide additional security. It provides 2-factor authentication using the mobile phone. You can download the application here:
http://www.phonefactor.com/downloads
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09-17-2008, 03:20 PM
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Neophyte
Join Date: Aug 2008
Posts: 5
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Farina
I've heard of LogMeIn, but I wish it felt more secure.
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LogMeIn in of itself is pretty secure, the thing that is hackable is your usename and password.
20% of People use these triggers for passwords:
- Your partner, child, or pet�s name, possibly followed by a 0 or 1 (because they�re always making you use a number, aren�t they?)
- The last 4 digits of your social security number.
- 123 or 1234 or 123456.
- �password�
- Your city, or college, football team name.
- Date of birth - yours, your partner�s or your child�s.
- �god�
- �letmein�
- �money�
- �love�
Also hackers use a thing called a brute force attack where they will literally generate all the possible password you have.
http://onemansblog.com/2007/03/26/ho...eak-passwords/
So I would look at 2-factor authentication.
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09-17-2008, 04:14 PM
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Neophyte
Join Date: Sep 2008
Posts: 5
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Are we doomed?
Wow! I'm thinking twice about this remote access strategy. What's the skinny on 2-factor authentication? You imply that it could protect me from a variety of password sniffing methods, but more usernames and passwords layered on seem like they would be susceptible to the same drawbacks (plus, they would be a major pain!)
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10-16-2008, 09:55 PM
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Swami
Join Date: May 2004
Posts: 4,396
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Two-Factor Authentication
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Originally Posted by Farina
Wow! I'm thinking twice about this remote access strategy.
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Plenty of companies allow remote access, so let them worry about it. Do not try to set something up on your own (unless you own the company); that's a good way to get fired for circumventing company security.
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Originally Posted by Farina
What's the skinny on 2-factor authentication?
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Two-factor authenticaion (done best) is "something you have, something you know". At some places, it's a smart card or biometrics (something you have) and a PIN or password (something you know).
Steve
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10-15-2008, 04:42 PM
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Neophyte
Join Date: Oct 2008
Posts: 2
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Farina
Hi there, I want to work from my home more often, but am often stuck there without information I need from my office PC. If I just had a way to get information from my office pc when I'm away, I could save a lot of time and gas driving to and from. Anyone have ideas how I can securely access stuff from another machine? I've heard of LogMeIn, but I wish it felt more secure.
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Another option would be Dropbox, which is what I use. It syncs a folder across machines (and that's it's only shortcoming imho) so you set up a folder structure within the Dropbox folder and get into the habit of storing files you would want to access remotely in that folder. Basically it'slike a super-charged My Documents folder. Great thing about Dropbox is that it's free at the moment (invite only) and multiplatform, so you can sync a mac with a windows machine. I think I have a couple of invites left so if you PM me I can send you one.
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