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Tailscale: How it works

Understand the entire Tailscale system, how it works, how we built it, and its benefits compared to legacy VPNs. Use this article as a guide to quickly build your own Tailscale replacement.

Tor VPN Beta: What we've learned building our own VPN for Android from scratch | Tor Project

Last fall, we soft-launched Tor VPN Beta as a way to extend Tor's privacy protections beyond the browser to an entire Android device. Since then, we've been able to learn from how people are actually using it in real-world scenarios. This post walks through what makes our per-app circuit isolation different from commercial VPNs, the surprising UX lesson when trying to bypass blocks, and the mobile foundation we're building for what's next.

How we built a lightweight identity provider using Tailscale's tools

How tsnet, application security grants, and Funnel combined to build a secure authorization app.

Top 5 Limitations of Google BeyondCorp | Twingate

Google BeyondCorp pioneered Zero Trust at scale—but it was built for Google. Here are the top 5 limitations for organizations trying to apply it themselves.

GREG ISENBERG on Twitter / X

I think the most interesting thing about Jack Dorsey's "Slack killer" is the idea around shared compute.I haven't seen people talk about it so here are my thoughts FWIW:Open models got good, close enough to the paid frontier stuff to run for real. But the strongest ones need… https://t.co/b5PBgYjAGL— GREG ISENBERG (@gregisenberg) July 25, 2026

What are the most indispensable books for indie hackers?

I asked over a dozen indie hackers for the one book they each find indispensable to bootstrapping a successful business. Check out their answers below....

Tailscale | Secure Connectivity for AI, IoT & Multi-Cloud

The connectivity platform for devs, IT, and security teams. Zero Trust identity-based access that deploys in minutes and scales to every resource. Start free.

Avery Pennarun on Tailscale's Evolution: From Mesh VPN to AI Security Gateway

Corey is the Chief Cloud Economist at Duckbill, where he specializes in helping companies improve their AWS bills by making them smaller and less horrifying. He also hosts the "Screaming in the Cloud" and "AWS Morning Brief" podcasts; and curates "Last Week in AWS," a weekly newsletter summarizing the latest in AWS news, blogs, and tools, sprinkled with snark and thoughtful analysis in roughly equal measure.

Tailworm

The design choices of the open source tailscale and headscale software have created an environment ripe for risk, while marketing security as its design and purpose. Choices have been made to move away from security-in-depth, removing layers of authentication, and replacing daemons such as OpenSSH which employ privilege-separation with a highly-privileged process. Other findings include broader-than-advertised network security boundaries, which seems to be legitimate bugs, but the missing security and isolation is precisely what users are advertised by these tools.

Tailscale Services

Securely connect to and manage access to your internal resources using Tailscale Services.

AI's Security Crisis: Why Your Assistant Might Betray You

Corey is the Chief Cloud Economist at Duckbill, where he specializes in helping companies improve their AWS bills by making them smaller and less horrifying. He also hosts the "Screaming in the Cloud" and "AWS Morning Brief" podcasts; and curates "Last Week in AWS," a weekly newsletter summarizing the latest in AWS news, blogs, and tools, sprinkled with snark and thoughtful analysis in roughly equal measure.

Open Source Startup: Why We Give Away All Our IP 🐝

Interview with Richard D. Bartlett, Loomio cofounder. Reposted with permission from Straight Up, a monthly startup resource that tackles…