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wraith808:
There is no sane reason to use TeamViewer which, by defaults, routes your shared desktop over U.S. servers.
-Tuxman (June 02, 2016, 12:37 PM)
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I'm assuming that traffic is encrypted (though I don't use it, I recognize that it's a useful tool for some)

Tuxman:
For what reason do you assume that? Good faith?

wraith808:
For what reason do you assume that? Good faith?
-Tuxman (June 02, 2016, 02:03 PM)
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I assume it because (a) I'm not using it, (b) it would make sense to do so, and (c) I'm too lazy and don't care enough to check it.  Mostly (a), but really (c).

mouser:
It's a pretty safe assumption -- it would be unfathomable for such a mature enterprise-level product not to use encryption for something like this.

And in fact you can read about the encryption they use here:
https://www.teamviewer.com/en/security/

"TeamViewer includes encryption based on 2048 RSA private-/public key exchange and AES (256 bit) session encryption. This technology is based on the same standards as https/SSL and meets today's standards for security. The key exchange also guarantees full, client-to-client data protection. This means that even our routing servers are not able to read the data stream."
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Tuxman:
today's standards for security
-mouser (June 02, 2016, 03:22 PM)
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So?

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