# LEGAL remote comp. access?(with consent!)
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/legal-remote-comp-access-with-consent/197062
**Category:** Factual Questions
**Created:** [August 23, 2003, 1:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/legal-remote-comp-access-with-consent/197062 "2003-08-23T01:22:23Z")
**Posts on this page:** 5
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### Author:  [@ERgilmoregirlfan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ERgilmoregirlfan)
#### Post date: [August 23, 2003, 1:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/legal-remote-comp-access-with-consent/197062/1 "2003-08-23T01:22:23Z")
How would you LEGALLY remotely access someone else’s computer, with their expressed consent?
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### Author:  [@RealityChuck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RealityChuck)
#### Post date: [August 23, 2003, 1:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/legal-remote-comp-access-with-consent/197062/2 "2003-08-23T01:25:13Z")
There are several legal software programs for this: Carbon Copy, for instance. Just buy and install.
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### Author:  [@Ottoerotic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ottoerotic)
#### Post date: [August 23, 2003, 1:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/legal-remote-comp-access-with-consent/197062/3 "2003-08-23T01:28:33Z")
Actually there is free ware that can be downloaded. Just type VNC into any search engine and you should find the site.
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### Author:  [@Duckster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Duckster)
#### Post date: [August 23, 2003, 1:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/legal-remote-comp-access-with-consent/197062/4 "2003-08-23T01:32:57Z")
You already asked this question in a different thread closed by a mod.
The actual process to remotely access a computer is different than your _intent_. Adding the word “legally” in this thread doesn’t make your previous thread go away.
A mod may come along shortly and close this thread for the very same reasons a mod closed the previous thread.
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### Author:  [@Dreaming\_of\_Maria\_Callas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dreaming_of_Maria_Callas)
#### Post date: [August 23, 2003, 5:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/legal-remote-comp-access-with-consent/197062/5 "2003-08-23T17:01:05Z")
Well, you could ask the person who wants to allow you to access their computer to install an SSH server. Just Google. If he or she is running Linux, they already have it and just need to turn it on.
Getting access to that person’s computer depends on them, not on you. They have to intentionally enable several services.
UnuMondo