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Tailscale raises $100M

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854 points gmemstr | 1 comments | 04 May 22 13:17 UTC | HN request time: 0s | source
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RobertRoberts ◴[04 May 22 13:35 UTC] No.31260159[source]▶
This sounds just creepy that they are suggesting no more anonymity on the internet... as a "fix".
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jaywalk ◴[04 May 22 13:39 UTC] No.31260216[source]▶
What a strange and utterly incorrect way to interpret Tailscale's mission.
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orangepurple ◴[04 May 22 13:46 UTC] No.31260321[source]▶
From the website:

What if we all just had a static IP address, and a DNS name? …and the address migrated around the world with you? …and you could connect to any of your devices no matter where they were?

Does this not promote the destruction of anonymity on the Internet?

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1. lvh ◴[04 May 22 13:51 UTC] No.31260387[source]▶
No? The fact that some machines (notably: all your _own devices_) need to be able to reliably talk to each other does nothing to impact anonymity on the Internet. Sure, you can route everything out of your own IP using Tailscale also, and that might be desirable if you're on a crappy connection, but it's still completely orthogonal to privacy-preserving techniques like Tor (and may in fact make those easier to deploy).

Tailscale doesn't make privacy worse any more than the fact that to a first approximation, no residential Internet provider in the US has rotated an IP in recent memory.

(Disclosure: I'm a (small) investor via Latacora's sibling fund, Lagomorphic.)