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Tailscale raises $100M

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854 points gmemstr | 5 comments | 04 May 22 13:17 UTC | HN request time: 0.895s | source
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nickysielicki ◴[04 May 22 14:29 UTC] No.31260955[source]▶
Tailscale has a fantastic product, I’ve been extremely happy from day one. If you’re waiting for a weekend to have a few hours to try out Tailscale, don’t, it takes 15 minutes to get every device you own up and running and talking. This is the lowest friction personal VPN to ever exist, and once you see how easy it is for your own devices, you’ll wish you had it at work.

The biggest risk that this company has is that Cloudflare (in all reality) should just buy them or reimplement it. It’s the type of product cloudflare would make, that’s for sure. Being based on open source wireguard, and being just a STUN/TURN server at its core… I’m sure that Tailscale will be the first but maybe not the best.

I’ve been dreaming lately of a tor-like network that’s based loosely on the idea of tailnets. Rather than blockchain bullshit, you’d have a direct ring of trust with friends, and then you could set up access policies to forward packets for people you don’t trust, but who know someone you do trust.

Web3 happens when people can host stuff on their phones, and Tailscale is something that lets you host things on your phone.

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siavosh ◴[04 May 22 14:41 UTC] No.31261130[source]▶
I’m pretty ignorant on this topic, but what are the benefits of having a personal VPN?
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1. newaccount74 ◴[04 May 22 14:53 UTC] No.31261313[source]▶
I use it so I can connect to my work machine (dynamic IP on office wifi) from my laptop (dynamic IP, home Wifi).

It's also great to be able to just ssh into your laptop at home when you're at work and you forgot to push whatever you were working on last night.

It's not necessary, but Tailscale makes a lot of things just easier.

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2. yeswecatan ◴[04 May 22 16:14 UTC] No.31262486[source]▶
> It's also great to be able to just ssh into your laptop at home when you're at work and you forgot to push whatever you were working on last night.

What's the difference between using Tailscale for this and just opening the port on your router?

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3. colordrops ◴[04 May 22 16:45 UTC] No.31262863[source]▶
Someone answered above - it works even if you have no router you can configure, using NAT busting. I do what you suggest though, just setting up wireguard directly on my OPNSense router. I don't want to get any private company involved in my VPN setup.
4. pimeys ◴[04 May 22 17:10 UTC] No.31263184[source]▶
Easier. And you don't open the port to a public network.
5. pkulak ◴[04 May 22 19:43 UTC] No.31264890[source]▶
Like a million times more secure.