The Courant’s Brian Dowling reports:
Testing the software that links his desktop computer with his laptop, Mark Smith saw something was off. The data flowing between his computers should have been encrypted, but it wasn’t.
He runs a Linux desktop and a MacBook Air, connecting the two with Apple’s Remote Desktop software, a program that Smith had just updated. When you link two computers in this way, everything sent — every click, every keystroke and every password — passes through a network.
The software should have encrypted the communication; it didn’t. Every communication from his laptop was visible on the network.
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