Teamviewer safety and passwords

[torreydale]

This article shouldn't affect the average user here who manually starts Teamviewer to share their desktop to give or receive remote support.  It's more something that is affecting some organizations using Teamviewer in an always-on fashion to remotely log in to a pool of systems they own and manage.  But I post it here anyway as a reminder of the importance of having good password habits, and as a way to "beat to the punch" anyone who may discover this news and have out of scope concerns about Linux Lite having Teamviewer available for install via Lite Software. 

http://arstechnica.com/security/2016/06/...-know-how/

[tomt]

Anyone using team-viewer might want to check this out...

      http://news.softpedia.com/news/teamviewe...4758.shtml

  http://www.theregister.co.uk/2016/06/01/...ch_report/

  http://www.howtogeek.com/257376/how-to-l...te-access/

[Monkeyman]

...good password habits...

So, using the same password (password123456, if it matters) for everything ISN'T a good idea?

[tomt]

Using a weak password is never a good idea. It is also a good idea idea to change them often.