Posted by: ithoughti
http://www.hamachi.cc/ : someone tell me why it's bad - 04/04/2006 17:58
http://www.hamachi.cc/I tried this nifty little program with my desktop and laptop. It works like a charm for streaming my music at home on my desktop to my laptop for use at my girlfriends house (or anyone elses house for that matter)
But something tells me that something bad could happen because it always does. So what sort of havoc could be wreaked?
Posted by: drakino
Re: http://www.hamachi.cc/ : someone tell me why it's bad - 04/04/2006 18:20
This program was covered on
Security Now back on episode 18. Steve seemed to like it a lot, with the only complaint being no OS X client yet. You can either listen to the episode or read a transcript there.
Posted by: matthew_k
Re: http://www.hamachi.cc/ : someone tell me why it's bad - 04/04/2006 19:12
I don't see any havoc which could be wreaked, my only complaints is that it's not any sort of open standard. Of course, any of the open standards are a real pain to impliment, especially for only one or two clients.
Matthew
Posted by: ithoughti
Re: http://www.hamachi.cc/ : someone tell me why it's bad - 04/04/2006 19:24
cool, thanks. Seems pretty good. However, they tout how easy it is to connect even through a crazy firewall etc on a corporate computer and guess what? I can't connect from work. Oh well.
An additional question:
So in order to see anything on the connected (windows) computer, you need to enable sharing. Let's say that I only enable one folder on my computer to 'sharing'. How easy would it be for someone that had Hamachi, that I gave my Hamachi Network password to, to break through that 'shared' folder and get into the rest of my system? Basically I'm asking if Windows file sharing is secure so I can give someone access to one folder on my computer to transfer one file and then unshare that folder and I want to make sure that they can't break into my system.
Is that possible for someone to do?
Posted by: Dignan
Re: http://www.hamachi.cc/ : someone tell me why it's bad - 05/04/2006 14:25
So this is like Orb but with a direct connection to your system? How do you deal with dynamic IPs?
Posted by: ithoughti
Re: http://www.hamachi.cc/ : someone tell me why it's bad - 05/04/2006 21:57
it assigns a unique 5.xx.xxx.xxx ip to everyone.
I tried this out between last night and now with about 7 other people. When more than 2 or so were connected to my little 'hub' the performance was extremely poor. I wanted to use this mainly as a very easy way to share large files between a few people. Obviously the download rates for them was limited by my upload rate. Not very good I'm afraid.
I'll stick to using this program as a very easy way to stream music to other places when I have my laptop with me.