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(Tailscale employee)

It is not a web page with a shell open.

It is the Tailscale client, compiled to WASM, maintaining the keys for connections to nodes on the tailnet. Connections opened from the browser engine don't get the ability to reach the tailnet.

Given the apparent (yet possibly unfounded) concern, it might be useful to discuss this issue in the blog post. Would you consider updating it?

Doesn't the post say exactly what the parent comment did? It explains the process that they came up with the WASM Tailscale, and how it authorizes and works. If anything, the parent comment just paraphrased the article.

It doesn't paragraph, this is the important sentence

Connections opened from the browser engine don't get the ability to reach the tailnet.

That was not really explained in the article. Maybe it's obvious to some people, but I'm sure it's not for many.

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