Last year, I urged furries to stop using Telegram because it doesn’t actually provide them with any of the privacy guarantees they think it gives them. Instead of improving Telegram’s c…
  • nesc@lemmy.cafeEnglish
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    4 days ago

    In fact: If someone is promoting a VPN service in 2025 and that service doesn’t use WireGuard as its underlying protocol, they are almost certainly LARPing at security expertise rather than offering valuable advice.

    Wireguard is not a vpn, there is no usable vpns built on wireguard, is extremely limited primitive that can be used to build one. Security expert, not understanding basic things, as usual. These people live in their own world where unusable but purportedly secure software is the solution to a problem.

    • Soatok Dreamseeker@pawb.socialOPEnglish
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      4 days ago

      Hell, even Mullvad uses WireGuard. Your argument is the most confidently incorrect I’ve seen on Lemmy ever since that one furry shouted over me to recommend Matrix instead of Signal.

      • nesc@lemmy.cafeEnglish
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        4 days ago

        That wasn’t flame, I have a dubious honor of supporting wireguard based vpn service. What part of my claims is false? There is no general purpose vpn suite based on wireguard (I’m talking openvpn style, not just pseudo lan that can’t even tell if the other end is alive), wg included with kernel is extremely limited and pretty much worthless for anything but p2p connections, and as much as I hate ike I would prefer to use it instead. As for me not replying to the author, I have seen his posts before, he is not a pleasant person to speak to.

        Edit: After re-reading my first post it might look as a personal attack, that wasn’t my intention at all, just this post came after I’ve finished trying to debug another wireguard problem in our app. 🫠