Locally, an attacker still needs to know your password. A strong password can make it too expensive or impractical to brute force.
Works well so far, is end to end encrypted, open source, and the apps are nice and solid.
Works great for me. I’m running mx23 after running mx19 for a few years.
I hope mx23 is better with updates, or making easier to update, as updates broke in mx19 not long after I first installed it. My only complaint. Otherwise great.
I went over to their Discord server and here’s what I was able to glean.
I gather they run a web-facing server which accepts text I/O from your Textual apps running on your personal machine or server, probably as a daemon. The connection between these two is via normal TCP/IP connections which your firewall already allows. Your Textual apps receive keyboard and mouse events and text.
They claim it should be “essentially free” for hobby use.
The text stream between your apps and their servers will eventually be (or are) encrypted.
“What hump?”
The community can only read the source code, as of yet. All of the source code has been provided by a set of internal developers.
The fact that it is open source means that, if somehow two malware elements have made it into the source code, then someone will eventually report it. But this doesn’t mean that two malware elements cannot be there right now.
These two malware hits on total virus scan should be communicated to the developers.