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Tailscale raises $100M

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boesboes ◴[] 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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ncmncm ◴[] No.31260654[source]
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.

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1. stavrianos ◴[] No.31268402[source]
What precisely are the consequences of the third-party auth? Is it, they get an IP ping each time a device connects or does anything? Or, does that only happen once, but they can revoke access at any time? *Surely* they aren't granted access to the content? That would be mindboggling.