VNC Viewer for Google Chrome

I use Teamviewer all the time and find it very useful. I need to spend a little time to look at how the connections are made though—I'm not confident that it's secure since you have to enter an ID and password that are (I'm assuming) authenticated by a different machine controlled by Teamviewer. I wonder if the connection is sent through their computers (to get around router issues) and therefore susceptible to capturing passwords, etc. or if the connection is handed off to the two machines after the ID / password is handled.

Re: VNC Viewer for Google Chrome

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Post by fiatjaf » Fri, Mar 08, 2013, 6:22 PM UTC

Sambdala wrote: post #4

Not supported by ChromeOS apparently.

"This application is not supported on this computer. Installation has been disabled."

Not supported on Mint, apparently.

Re: VNC Viewer for Google Chrome

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Post by haxxorfreak » Fri, Mar 08, 2013, 6:32 PM UTC

Sambdala wrote: post #4

Not supported by ChromeOS apparently.

This is probably relevant:

1. Download VNC Viewer for Google Chrome to a Windows, Mac OS X, UNIX, or Linux computer, or to a Chromebook or Chromebox with an Intel processor (support for ARM processors coming soon).

Re: VNC Viewer for Google Chrome

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Post by kzahel » Fri, Mar 08, 2013, 6:37 PM UTC

Weird, looking at the manifest, I see it asks for permission for "socket": [ "tcp-connect::" ], but when I try to use that in my own app, I get the message "socket" permissions are only allowed for packaged apps.

I am quite frustrated by the confusing mix of extensions vs "legacy" apps vs "hosted" apps vs the newfangled "packaged" apps. The chrome web store is extremely confusing and the documentation is all over the place.

Re: VNC Viewer for Google Chrome

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Post by uptown » Fri, Mar 08, 2013, 6:43 PM UTC

backwardm wrote: post #6

patrickk wrote: post #3

An alternative is Teamviewer- http://www.teamviewer.com/ I've found it excellent. Free for non-commercial use.

I use Teamviewer all the time and find it very useful. I need to spend a little time to look at how the connections are made though—I'm not confident that it's secure since you have to enter an ID and password that are (I'm assuming) authenticated by a different machine controlled by Teamviewer. I wonder if the connection is sent through their computers (to get around router issues) and therefore susceptible to captu…

TeamViewer works great - but I share the same concerns. It seems too good to be true, which makes me wonder what I'm sacrificing as a user.