alt Hacker NewsFrom the changelog, it seems like this may have been due to issues caused by the on-by-default setting, although I don’t work for Tailscale and am speculating here with no inside info.
I wonder, would Tailscale be willing to confirm that they plan to fix whatever the issues are and re-enable this default within a short-ish timeframe? I currently have plenty of trust in the good intentions of the people running Tailscale, but with geopolitics as it currently is, I’d love to have a concrete reason even beyond that positive track record to believe that this change isn’t attempting to satisfy ease-of-surveillance concerns expressed by government agencies in whichever country.
Seems like the issues in question are not within Tailscale's span of control (basically, the devices themselves with TPMs are too unreliable in the general population, so the feature is more appropriate for controlled environments that opt in to its usage).