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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: 0.211s | source
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boesboes ◴[04 May 22 13:43 UTC] No.31260274[source]▶
For anyone else who wonders wtf tailscale is:

> Tailscale is a VPN service that makes the devices and applications you own accessible anywhere in the world, securely and effortlessly. It enables encrypted point-to-point connections using the open source WireGuard protocol, which means only devices on your private network can communicate with each other.

It seems to take care of key distribution, nat-traversal, authentication etc etc

Neat! No sure how that is 'fixing internet' exactly, but really cool anyway

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gowld ◴[04 May 22 13:52 UTC] No.31260403[source]▶
"Fixing the internet" == you can comunicate with computers that want to comunicate with you, and not with others.
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contravariant ◴[04 May 22 13:57 UTC] No.31260484[source]▶
"Fixing the internet" == you can communicate with computers that you want to communicate with, and not with others.
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1. lupire ◴[04 May 22 19:19 UTC] No.31264675[source]▶
You can do some things that you don't want to do.

If someone uses a rubber hose, you might be forced to communicate against your will, using the fixed Internet.