I want to remote desktop to my laptop on my home network from my Windows Phone. It's just for a bit of fun really. I don't know much about this but I stumbled across the Windows Phone Remote Desktop app. It seemed quite easy to set up, and I'm fortunate in that my Internet connection has a static IP address. I mentioned this to a few network savvy friends and they said I was mad to consider RDP. They said it was far too insecure. They said exposing a port would just get attention and my password would eventually be cracked through brute force. They suggested setting up a VPN to do the job. This seems far more complicated to me. Surely I can use RDP and set up MAC address filtering so that my router only accepts connections from my laptop and my phone. That would make it bomb proof, wouldn't it? Any of you got any thoughts on this? Thanks.