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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: 0.274s | 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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1. conductr ◴[05 May 22 01:47 UTC] No.31268396[source]▶
Maybe a apt place to ask the question, all of my devices are silos. I’m still wondering if this is for people besides me, or if I’m just missing the potential use cases for myself. I have never needed to connect my device to each other. In the house I have a few laptops, a couple phones, Xbox, Apple TV’s, fire sticks, and every device is just connected to the google mesh Wi-Fi. Every device communicates out for what it needs (and yeah probably more) but I never in years have needed to use a device as a server unless I was developing on it and using it as localhost. Do I still have a use for tailscale?