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I am doing a company talk (we do them weekly) about network security and at least the way I was planning to explain tailscale to our staff was via a picture I s
by atonse 4y ago
I am doing a company talk (we do them weekly) about network security and at least the way I was planning to explain tailscale to our staff was via a picture I still need to somehow build, but it goes something like this:
You have a crowd of people (like one of those massive crowds you see in Tokyo etc). And you are both at either sides of the crowd, and you each have a can with a string connecting you to each other – and I explain that the crowd is the public internet, and tailscale allows you to create that string across the whole crowd in a way that nobody in the crowd can ever listen to you guys talk, even though the string literally passes through/over tens of people in that crowd.
If someone has a photo like that, I'd gladly use it :)
- knicholes 4y agoStable diffusion it
- Gwarzo 4y agoThat is just a vpn
- atonse 4y agoYep. And Tailscale is the only VPN (like a mesh network, not "let me watch BBC Channel 4 from the US") product I'm aware of that someone who mostly understands cans, strings, and crowds, can setup in half an hour (with maybe just a couple questions to a tech person). I know enough about all the nuts and bolts under the hood with Tailscale and that makes it feel MORE magical to me, that with all those things to deal with, it still just works. And it's no compromise (uses wireguard, etc) The last time I saw that level of magic was in a product called Hamachi. It Just Worked™ more than a decade ago. LogMeIn bought them and ruined it. But with Hamachi I didn't know how it worked under the hood.