basically tailscale does direct connections between nodes, yes, and it is encrypted

but these nodes at the start don’t know each other, they ask the tailscale control plane “what nodes are there”

if the control plane lies and inserts fake/impersonating nodes, it could pretend to be your trusted laptop for example

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this makes no sense. if they couldn't add machines then how do they add your machines? something has to coordinate everything.

i meant to reply to nostr:note1sv9hnywxw9hkq9qtxpzmr2zv9hmfmtzqd6rlm3yruj0uyu6wldeqzk2e77

not sure how that happened

With lock, YOU are the one coordinating. After a machine gets added it can't do anything until YOU sign a lock message. (I.e. sign its pubkey and publish that)

It's true without tailscale lock, please look into that feature