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How to build your own VPN, or: the history of WARP

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Re: How to build your own VPN, or: the history of WARP

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There's zero chance I'd put some random device from anyone, even a friend, on my network - especially if I knew that was its purpose. Sounds like a huge liability. Do people really do this?

> Sounds like a huge liability Not really, you aren’t responsible for what other people do without your knowledge and you’d have solid evidence that someone else was able to use your network. Sure, if your friend was committing some horrible crimes it might end up being slightly inconvenient for you.

If your "friend" uses it to download CSAM, you're in for a world of trouble. I don't know that none of my friends aren't into that stuff, but sincerely believe the friends I share a tailnet or two with aren't doing that with my connection. Tailscale has Mullvad VPN exit node integration for sketchy shit, this is more about getting access to eg Swedish television for a friend's girlfriend who gets homesick every once in a while.

Re: How to build your own VPN, or: the history of WARP

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Most people have no sense of security. They say yes to strangers if asked to plug in a USB device on their laptop. When I said no in the train to someone asking to plug their device "for charging", I was definitely the bad guy. Just find anything plausible, for backup storage, or say, to share family photos with grand parents but it does not work on my home wifi because my ISP is blocking ports, whatever.

Ah man, this must be rethorics and you wouldn't lie to a friend close enough to do such a favour, would you? WHo the h is after you guys anyway, to want such level of degraded-internet-speed? And about 'Warp', is it or is it not a VPN after-all? They mentionned they aren't a VPN, but that they build on wireguard ??

I wouldn't lie even to strangers, and my point was solely about people having little to no sense of security.
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