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submitted 1 day ago by Treedrake@fedia.io to c/privacy@lemmy.ml

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

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[-] thfi@discuss.tchncs.de 47 points 1 day ago

If you do not trust Tailscale as a company, here is an open source re-implementation of the server called headscale. Some/all clients are open source as well. So, you can review all components yourself or pay for a professional third-party review. Otherwise, if you take a binary blob from any origin, including Tailscale, and have it run with privileges on your server, there are few limits on what this blob can do. Yes, backdoors are technically possible, but probably bad for Tailscale's business if that ever came to light.

[-] jqubed@lemmy.world 5 points 1 day ago

I’ve never heard of professional third-party review of open source code. That’s a service people offer?

[-] SteveTech@programming.dev 6 points 1 day ago

I've heard of it, but I didn't think it was financially viable for an individual to pay for though.

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