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Tailscale: A Virtual Private Network for Zero Trust Security

Well before launching their company, the founders of https://tailscale.com knew what they wanted to accomplish: give developers small, trusted, human-scale networks to work in, with devices and applications of everyone on that network accessible to each other, and only to each other. Which is, of course, what virtual private networks (VPNs) are supposed to do.

Once upon a time, the interconnected networks comprising the Internet included the kind of small, trusted, human-scale networks Tailscale provides.

“In a small network of humans or computers, if you can establish trust between them then most security problems will go away.

Unlike traditional, hub-and-spoke VPN network architectures that send network traffic through a central gateway, Tailscale creates a peer-to-peer mesh network.