Privacy

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A place to discuss privacy and freedom in the digital world.

Privacy has become a very important issue in modern society, with companies and governments constantly abusing their power, more and more people are waking up to the importance of digital privacy.

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Is there a downside to using Tailscale when it comes to privacy? (fedia.io)

submitted 4 days ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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As in, would they be able to access your server?

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 4 days ago (1 children)

for authentication you need an account at one of their supported SSO providers (which is mostly a big tech brand) or at an OpenID service.

the bigger problem is that (I think) the choosen SSO provider will be able to impersonate you, and so they could reconfigure your network or connect to it

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 days ago

You can just turn off new devices signing up without manual approval.