How are people running their Macs exposed directly to the Internet?
In order to make this work, a user would have to:
- Turn on screen sharing
- Turn off the OS firewall block
- Set up NAT routing on their router to forward port 5900 to their Mac
Seems to me that anyone who could do this would know it was a really bad idea?
Especially since you can already tunnel screen sharing via Apple ID or FaceTime to connect without leaving the port open.
Synology support has told me to do equally dumb shit back when I still had synology products.
Apparently requires VNC to be open to the internet
Honest question: who still uses VNC? I think it’s only relevant because it’s just kind of a safe fallback but not because it’s particularly great at anything.
It’s built into every Mac
https://support.apple.com/en-us/103229#%3A~%3Atext=Sharing%2C+Printer+Discovery-%2C5900%2C-TCP
I know, but I’ve never seen anyone use it. People use rustdesk or something like that anymore.
I use it for a headless Mac mini, otherwise yeah better solutions exist
It reads like: after someone deliberately configured their mac to expose a feature on the internet, someone “may” use it.
It’s probably one of those “security issue found by AI”.
