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With the aforementioned Taildrop you do not have to trust Tailscale with your data.

• greatgib 3y ago
  Taildrop just solve a smaller part of the problem space. For example, often the target might not be up or connected and you might want to have your file available to all your devices. The closest competitor to Telegram in term of convenience is email I think. Just a common use case, I will be at work, and will get a airplane eTicket pdf for a business trip. I would connect through telegram web to drop it into my saved messages. Then, later I would be quite sure to have it available on any of my phones when being at the airport, and even being able to access it from my personal laptop later for a visa request for example. Also, a moment later, I could suddenly share it with my girlfriend so that she have all the info to pick me up when I will come back. In addition I can quite easily search such documents by keywords or date.
• midasuni 3y ago
  Don’t you need to have tailscale on the machine (and thus give full access to all your machines to the company) for taildrop to work?
  • pxeger1 3y ago
    The Tailscale client is open source, FWIW
    • midasuni 3y ago
      My understanding is that to configure your WireGuard tunnels the tailscale saas layer distributes the keys. If so there’s nothing stopping it distribute a key you don’t control.
      • aborsy 3y ago
        Yes, there is tail lock that you can enable.
  • Aerbil313 3y ago
    Tailscale uses Wireguard which is E2EE and Tailscale clients are open source. I use taildrop all the time, it’s very reliable and not only that, it’s P2P so it doesn’t go through other people’s servers afaict.