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WireGuard® for Enterprise sounds funny on a purely private blog with that name, but they have pretty affordable plans for VPN-like constructs that make it very easy to reach your local home devices while on the go. There are certainly other alternatives, but I think if I run my agent locally, I'd rather put the subscription money into a proper VPN service instead, where I get more value overall. Update: it's free for private users up to 3 users. Nice.

" ... and the fearsome Teutonic minions of the Chaos Computer Club" via The Blast Shack. Bruce Sterling on Assange and Wikileaks. Somehow, the sub-sentence threw me completely out of the reading rhythm.

Sunday reading: Google Streetview - linked because I'm fed up with all the pro-Streetview talk and the "who pixelates doesn't understand the net" faction. The net is a medium for the whole society and not just a playground for some tech enthusiasts. And whoever ties their net freedom to the permission for unrestricted data collection for a large corporation has a significant understanding deficit. Especially when the sole purpose of this corporation is the systematic evaluation of these data mountains for the optimization of advertising.