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Answer» I've been wondering. If Hamachi can bypass your firewall (some which blocks your whole interweb life) be SAFE? I mean how? It could be Hamachi leaks important info, I'm pretty sure it can only bypass Windows Firewall, after all, that's the only firewall most people have. If you don't trust it completely, get Online Armor from http://www.majorgeeks.com/. Well I have another Firewall...anyway. What would be the point of a firewall if everything can get through it? You do understand the entire purpose of a firewall is to STOP incoming and outgoing connections, and you do understand that hamachi performs both incoming and outgoing connections? If you are going to become suspicion of a tool like hamachi because it manages to add exceptions and suspect it is "leaking important info" (whatever the *censored* that means) why do you trust your firewall itself? How do you know the firewall isn't connecting to the company site and leaking important info either? You don't because it is designed to be safe, and Hamachi is designed to be as easy to use as possible, this includes setting up applicable firewall exceptions during setup for a few popular firewall applications. This is not a "risk" because these exceptions can only be made after you give a program administrator permissions. If you don't trust the program for whatever reason. Don't use it. Clearly the thousands of other people using Hamachi are just not as observant as you are of the "obvious" leaking of important data. Mate clam down, don't need to get irritated. God. Quote from: Redcaa on September 12, 2010, 02:59:40 PM Mate clam down, don't need to get irritated.I'm not, nor was I, irritated. Hamachi, at least when I used it before LogMeIn bought them, is/was a VPN Tunneling tool. It sends data/traffic through an encrypted UDP tunnel. Only people that are members of the same 'groups' that you are will be allowed to access resources that you have openly shared. In essence, Hamachi makes it so whomever is in the group 'appears' to be on the same LAN, giving them the same access to your machine as if they were sitting next to your sharing a switch. As mentioned, you must explicitly give the program permission to make the exceptions in your firewall required by it to run. If I remember correctly, there is only one port used. However, again if I remember correctly, Hamachi does talk to 'master' node in order to setup connections to the other peers in your groups. This only lasts until a direct connection is ESTABLISHED between your machine and theirs, though. No personal information is TRANSMITTED during this process, just what it takes to setup a direct connection between the peers, much as a tracker for torrents works. Quote from: Redcaa on September 12, 2010, 02:59:40 PM clam down I like this... clam down! Ah crap! Clam...=.= Thanks for the info SilentAssasin64 You're welcome. Hamachi can be a really useful tool if you use it to it's full potential. But, like I said, it didn't used to have all the restrictions it does now. However, still a useful tool. |
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