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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. PLG88 ◴[] No.31272508[source]
You should checkout the opensource project OpenZiti (https://openziti.github.io/). It has its own internal PKI system so you dont need to (but can) like to an external 3rd party. It also allows you to close all inbound ports and link listeners (as every endpoint has embedded identity so makes outbound only connections) and can be embedded directly into apps with SDKs as well as deploy on any popular OS or as a virtual appliance.