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Mullvad and Tailscale Announce Partnership (mullvad.net)

submitted 11 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.blahaj.zone/post/2728889

From the article:

Since Tailscale was founded in 2019, customers have been forced to choose between either Tailscale or Mullvad without the ability for them to co-exist.
Today we announce a partnership with Tailscale that allows you to use both in conjunction through the Tailscale app. This functionality is not available through the Mullvad VPN app. This partnership allows customers of Tailscale to make use of our WireGuard VPN servers as “exit nodes”. This means that whilst connected to Tailscale, you can access your devices across Tailscale’s mesh network, whilst still connecting outbound through Mullvad VPN WireGuard servers in any location.

Announcement also on Tailscale blog.

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

Another use case (in addition to the BitTorrent use case) is if you want to host a site but hide your IP. You can run Nginx and configure it to listen on a port the VPN service has allocated to you. Good VPN services like AirVPN let you choose ports, and those ports are always allocated to you.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago (1 children)

although people hosting illegal content using port forwarding is likely one of the reasons they removed it, so its a tricky problem

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

One of the main reasons people use VPNs is for illegal content... Port forwarding doesn't change that.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

sure illegal content can be accessed over a vpn without port forwarding, but when someone is hosting a child porn site over a mullvad ip, that is clearly a larger problem

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Yeah, I assume the kind of people that runs a VPN doesn't mind copyright infringement that much, but any sane person wouldn't like to contribute to the distribution of CSAM even if they are legally not doing anything wrong.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

That's one of the main issues that criminals are more likely tonvalue privacy (for survival) than the average user that considers it a plus. And by criminal it can stretch from benign stuff like copyright infringement to being a hitman.