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>

        John

PS: 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.