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Re:TeamViewer denies hack after PCs hijacked, PayPal account... by koolba on Thursday June 02, 2016 @09:00PM (#11827580)
Why do you have remote access set up to a computer that has unencrypted credentials stored on it?
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Re:TeamViewer denies hack after PCs hijacked, PayPal account... by Buge on Thursday June 02, 2016 @09:31PM (#11827697)
Because it's useful? Tons of people have ssh set up to their servers. Many of those servers might contain api keys for various services. Same thing.
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