Many of our users cannot spell TCP/IP! I'm sure you have them too.
On Fri, Feb 24, 2023 at 4:42 AM John Gilmore gnu@toad.com wrote:
Mark Phillips via 44net 44net@mailman.ampr.org wrote:
You vant to use my system? You use the keys I provide!
Wireguard was designed to provide remarkably foolproof privacy and security, but apparently fools are getting more ingenious these days.
The majority of our VPN clients (we are approaching 50) could not find their arse with both hands and so ...
... so they don't know to avoid a VPN provider who insists on having a database containing all the private keys that protect all the clients' identities and traffic.
Yeah, I know, this ham radio networking stuff is a toy. It just causes trouble to teach naive users, they're better left in the dark. The net is mostly only used for ragchewing anyway, except when a regional disaster or an armed attack occurs. <irony> Nobody would ever want to interfere with government responses to emergencies, nor spy on how effective an armed attack was. </irony>
JohnPS: When I worked at Data General in the 1970s, it was the software department policy that everyone must give their login password to the department secretary. Working late one night, we examined her desk, and found the sheets of paper where all the passwords were written down. Then we could impersonate anyone in the whole department. <irony>Luckily, we were just writing DG's operating system software! What national intelligence agencies would want to throw any untraceable back doors into that??? DG machines were often used for process control, like in dams and chemical plants and nuclear installations.