dbwalton opened this issue on Oct 23, 2020 ยท 238 posts
Rottenham posted Mon, 21 October 2024 at 4:48 AM
Not happening. No one accesses that machine but myself. DAZ is out of their minds if they think I would agree to that, let alone PAY for it.
Remote servers were universally acknowledged as a security risk as early as the mid-80s, when the computer first appeared in the engineering workplace. IOW, nobody used one. Why? Because anyone can walk in with a blank drive, steal or corrupt your data, and no one can prevent it.
This held true until the early 2000s, when marketing took over "all customer-facing documents" (as in, all web sites). Naive users were reassured when marketing renamed the remote server "the cloud." Ironically, the biggest threat turned out to be the owner of the remote server. You are wise to limit external access to your machine.
"There's a sucker born every minute." -- P.T. Barnum