[joebo]

I have been looking for a solution where I can remote into my company laptop in a pinch from my phone. Many of our cloud resources are moving to be private IPs and VPN only, which can only run on corporate managed devices. I have a few PIs sitting around and it seems like it would be $100-$200 even with a PI to build (pikvm hat is $150 and tinypilot wasn't obvious what the BOM is).

Is there a lower cost or simpler solution? Company hardware is windows and VPN is fortinet and WSL2 is allowed

[password4321]

The cheapest secure option with built-in software is probably SSH port forwarding of RDP. If you have to, you can have an SSH client connecting out from the laptop, reverse port forwarding back from a server you control.

Ideally you'd configure RDP to only listen on loopback.

Any software solution would be detectable to all the corporate monitoring tools vs. hardware as discussed in the article (which I guess someone could figure out via USB/device IDs but seems less likely to be noticed than open ports/RDP connections).