Tailscale raises $100M

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

I thought that Tailscale was pretty interesting.

Avery Pennarun, its CTO, is somebody whose judgment I am used to trusting.

Then I learned that to use it, I would be dependent on authenticating using a login on one of the unaccountable internet behemoths who could take away my account for any random reason or no expressed reason at all.

No, thank you.

Yes. If they can’t build basic auth and make sure it’s secure, it sends quite the message.

Super annoying and borderline unacceptable.

They don't want to build basic auth. They probably could, but it gives them more headaches and customer service touch points compared to delegating that out. Like: what if the user forgets their password? Or what if they lose their 2FA device?