[chbot] Peer-to-peer remote access box

[Charles Manning]

>Just like your smartphone, then. If their OS vendors go bust you have a
>paperweight. Computer museum people don't think it's funny.

Not at all like a cellphone.

It is possible that a cellphone company will go out of business before
your phone dies, but that is rather unlikely. So far that has not
happened in NZ.

It is, however, an odds-on bet that some little rinky-dink outfit on
kickstarter/whatever will not make it past the end of the year -
leaving you with a brick.


On Wed, Jul 30, 2014 at 10:03 AM, Volker Kuhlmann
<list0570 at paradise.net.nz> wrote:
> On Wed 30 Jul 2014 08:19:51 NZST +1200, Charles Manning wrote:
>
>> Rendezvous is an absolute need for any "peer to peer" system that
>> works with devices behind NATs etc.
>
> It is not an absolute need. It is only a need for those who can't make
> changes to their NAT system, i.e. configure inbound access.
>
>> The biggest worry I'd have with one of these is that the company goes
>> bust and the rendezvous goes away.
>
> Just like your smartphone, then. If their OS vendors go bust you have a
> paperweight. Computer museum people don't think it's funny.
>
>> If it is open to other firmware, then that might be fixable.
>
> Or if the firmware is properly designed to allow specified peer
> location. Also solves rendezvous server security problems - but not the
> Joe Bloggs problem. Joe Bloggs will have a paperweight, just with
> everything else he owns that only works with the cloud. A fan of cloud
> computing, anyone?
>
> Volker
>
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