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johnisgoodtoday at 6:39 AM0 repliesview on HN

Same applies to Tailscale. A Tailscale client, coordination plane vulnerability, or incomplete understanding of their trust model is also all it takes. You are adding attack surface, not removing it.

If your threat model includes "OpenSSH might have an RCE" then "Tailscale might have an RCE" belongs there too.

If you are exposing a handful of hardened services on infrastructure you control, Tailscale adds complexity for no gain. If you are connecting machines across networks you do not control, or want zero-config access to internal services, then I can see its appeal.