Comment Re:Remoting status using Wayland? (Score 1) 189
SCP moves one file. SSH doesn't move any. RDP makes every file the target has access to directly accessible as a file share on the client even if you don't want it to.
CryptoLocker running on the client wouldn't have seen the files the target could access at all had the connection been VNC, X, or ssh.
So this is just a security by obscurity play. The assertion is since a particular instance of malware lacks a feature set enabling it to detect and subvert SSH connections from a compromised client then SSH is more secure than RDP even though both offer functionally equivalent access.
Sounds like all the wrong lessons have been learned from this security breach.
Also worth noting RDP maps the clients local resources to remote server not the other way around.