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Re: Tailscale raises $100M

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Post by jaywalk »

cassianoleal wrote: post #105
jaywalk wrote: post #27

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I think you've got a fundamental misunderstanding of what Tailscale does. It's all about accessing your own devices. You don't need or want anonymity in that case. They are not a general purpose VPN service, and can't even be used as one.

> They are not a general purpose VPN service, and can't even be used as one. I'm not sure what you mean by this, but this sounds like exactly what they are, with some functionality on top. It's what I use to VPN into my LAN from outside, and it's pretty general purpose from where I stand.

I'm talking about services like NordVPN, Mullvad, etc. They do not funnel your Internet connection through their servers.

Re: Tailscale raises $100M

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Post by mnkmnk »

nickysielicki wrote: post #111

Tailscale has a fantastic product, I’ve been extremely happy from day one. If you’re waiting for a weekend to have a few hours to try out Tailscale, don’t, it takes 15 minutes to get every device you own up and running and talking. This is the lowest friction personal VPN to ever exist, and once you see how easy it is for your own devices, you’ll wish you had it at work. The biggest risk that this company has is that…

Cloudflare already has a competing product https://www.cloudflare.com/en-in/lp/ppc/cloudflare-for-teams...

Re: Tailscale raises $100M

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Post by arsome »

I was going to try TailScale but then it seemed the only option to do so as an individual was to login with a 3rd party cloud provider, which I in no way want tied into my networks.

I gave up and just setup wireguard directly instead, I don't trust Tailscale either if that's their attitude towards privacy, it's permanently marred my vision of their product.

Re: Tailscale raises $100M

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Post by criddell »

YPPH wrote: post #63
pilif wrote: post #9

With such a huge investment comes the obligation to eventually pay it back. Is this another one of my favourite tools going the way of Dropbox, 1Password and all other companies that were formed around what should be a platform feature, which took on way too large investment sums and were eventually forced to become the everything, losing sight of their core values? I sincerely hope not, but there's so much bad prece…

How has 1Password lost sight of its core values? Perhaps you refer to loss of local vaults? If so, they were never really a viable option for me - I needed the app syncing across multiple devices, including mobile, and doing so with a third party sync solution wasn't suitable.

For me, it was their switch to an Electron app. "High security" and "built from dozens of third party libraries and running on a browser" don't belong together.

Re: Tailscale raises $100M

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Post by MatthiasPortzel »

capableweb wrote: post #13

> We’re here to fix the Internet That's such a broad "mission statement" that I wonder if it's effective at all. I mean, what SaaS wouldn't say that they fix something with the internet? That's to whole reason for online businesses solving one or another problem. How could that statement help them guide their implementations of various solutions?

My understanding/hope is that the author uses "internet" to mean the technology. Colloquially we use "internet" to also refer to every technology that runs on top of the internet (like the web), but 'connect devices together' is a meaningful statement and the internet is the technology that we currently use to do that.

Re: Tailscale raises $100M

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Post by MobiusHorizons »

jollybean wrote: post #54

" What if we all just had a static IP address, and a DNS name? …and the address migrated around the world with you? …and you could connect to any of your devices no matter where they were? …and it was always encrypted? …and there was always a correctly configured firewall? …and you never had to worry about certificates? …and every device in your organization was tied to a user identity and SSO and MFA? …and all this…

Have you ever tried running a server or sshing to things that weren’t in a cloud provider? Have you ever run something you want access over the internet without wanting that thing on the open internet getting attacked? Tailscale provides a solution to the problems you run into in those situations. It gives you a way to access (or selectively give specific people access to) these devices from anywhere on the internet while still having those assets behind a firewall.

Re: Tailscale raises $100M

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Post by Saris »

arsome wrote: post #124

I was going to try TailScale but then it seemed the only option to do so as an individual was to login with a 3rd party cloud provider, which I in no way want tied into my networks. I gave up and just setup wireguard directly instead, I don't trust Tailscale either if that's their attitude towards privacy, it's permanently marred my vision of their product.

Yeah that's the biggest hangup I have, it just seems strange to rely on a third party login to be able to access something as important as a VPN. If my google account or whatever gets shut off for any reason I'd be pretty hosed.

Re: Tailscale raises $100M

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Post by siavosh »

nickysielicki wrote: post #111

Tailscale has a fantastic product, I’ve been extremely happy from day one. If you’re waiting for a weekend to have a few hours to try out Tailscale, don’t, it takes 15 minutes to get every device you own up and running and talking. This is the lowest friction personal VPN to ever exist, and once you see how easy it is for your own devices, you’ll wish you had it at work. The biggest risk that this company has is that…

I’m pretty ignorant on this topic, but what are the benefits of having a personal VPN?
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