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Most of what you think you know about this case is wrong. Forget about UFOs.

Also, what Gary did is trivial, barely even worth the term "hacking" (summary: he used an off-the-shelf product called RemotelyAnywhere to access completely open internet-connected Windows desktops that had the default password set).

If you want to go back to the source legal materials, this set of articles is particularly interesting:

Part 1, Part 2, and Part 3

There is a final part coming too.

One thing that I just discovered is that it turns out that LogMeIn.com is owned by 3am Labs who also owns Remotely Anywhere, so they are using the same technology. The free version of Logmein.com provides simple, secure remote connectivity to one host. The "pro" version (which costs a monthly fee) allows full remote control of one host as well as other nice features such as full file transfer capabilities, remote printing, and other features. You can add additional hosts for a reduced fee.

My advice is that if you re-assign the hosted PC frequently, or if you don't need the file transfer or remote printing capabilities, or have a dynamic IP address, then you may want to use the free version of LogMeIn.com, but if you use a dynamic DNS service (such as MyServer.org) and want to manage things yourself, then consider investing in Remotely Anywhere. Unless you are expensing it or can afford it, I don't think I can recommend the fee-based service because the full Remotely Anywhere package will cost you less within a year.

One thing that I just discovered is that it turns out that LogMeIn.com is owned by 3am Labs who also owns Remotely Anywhere, so they are using the same technology. The free version of Logmein.com provides simple, secure remote connectivity to one host. The "pro" version (which costs a monthly fee) allows full remote control of one host as well as other nice features such as full file transfer capabilities, remote printing, and other features. You can add additional hosts for a reduced fee.

My advice is that if you re-assign the hosted PC frequently, or if you don't need the file transfer or remote printing capabilities, or have a dynamic IP address, then you may want to use the free version of LogMeIn.com, but if you use a dynamic DNS service (such as MyServer.org) and want to manage things yourself, then consider investing in Remotely Anywhere. Unless you are expensing it or can afford it, I don't think I can recommend the fee-based service because the full Remotely Anywhere package will cost you less within a year.

I've been using RemotelyAnywhere on my windows machines. I am very impressed with it. You connect to a specified port using your web browser and you can remotely control every aspect of the machine via Java or ActiveX. It's very feature-rich and is working quite well for me.

Rather than some *cough* *cough*....I wish to actually try to provide some help. I've been using Remotely Anywhere for remote administration of my win2k network. It does a lot more than it sounds like you're asking for, but it is extremely useful and runs an ssh server. It is relatively cheap, but not free. Website

This is the best remote software i've found for a windows machine, and i haven't seen it once in the comments so far http://www.remotelyanywhere.com/ really, go look at it

Not everyone will be willing to do this of course, but I got around our company's strict proxy server (that only allowed http over port 80 and ftp over port 21) by using Remotely Anywhere in HTTP tunneling mode. I am not sure if there are other products that will do this, but I tried 3 or 4 others before I found one that worked.

I don't know why nobody ever mentions RemotelyAnywhere when this question comes up.

It works entirely from a browser, and is quite nice.

It includes a mobo info page (uses MBM), network graphs, file management, upload/download, SSL, works through firewalls (inc. VNC-like usage), telnet/SSH/FTP server (dunno how (in)secure they are; you can disable them).

I like it.

I sure have no grip with VNC, but on Windows Boxes I would still recomend RemotelyAnywhere.

(I'm only talking of doing admin on WinBoxes here), it's IMHO faster and more versatile than VNC, and offers a HUGE amount of other features such as a SSH telnet server, remote file manipulation, process level info, performance graph, etc...

So okay it's not free (as in Beer) like VNC, but is an outstanding product, they have a trial version, give it a spin.

Murphy(c)