Thanks to all for your input on this. how would someone go about 'snooping' my password? Is this just a matter of catching the input on the local machine that I'm logging in from, or would it be intercepting information on the port on which I'm connecting to my computer, or something else? Bob Tanner wrote: > On Friday 07 March 2003 03:41 pm, Justin Haaheim wrote: > >>Why would it be a bad idea to open, say, 5801 to the internet? That's >>all I would need to open. I have realVNC running a mini http server >>that pops up a java applet to run vnc. This is nice because then I can >>run the remote desktop from anywhere that has a web browser with java. > > > Then anyone with a web browser can do the same thing. > > Does this mini http server encrypt the link? If not, anyone on the path to > your boxcan easily snoop your username and password. > > _______________________________________________ Twin Cities Linux Users Group Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota http://www.mn-linux.org tclug-list at mn-linux.org https://mailman.real-time.com/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list