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Tailscale with Avery Pennarun and Brad Fitzpatrick

Security Cryptography Whatever

CHAPTER

The Job of a VPN Is to Connect People to Things That Should Not Be Connected To

The job of a v p n is to connect people into your network who otherwise would not be connected into your network. Most v p ns don't have an access control layer, because that's the opposite of what firewells do. If you can combine the two into one product, and just think like, look, my job is not really one thing or the other thing. Riy sort of thinking of it holistically is like, there are people, there are things. How do i connect the people to the things?

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