Yes, but there’s a lot of people that lurk to learn in these forums. So I just wanted to explain it to them.

For those wondering why this is downvoted 192.168.X.X are local ips. Meaning on local connections use that IP, and is not available to the wider world to use.

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I think your reading more than there’s there.

It’s one company asking employees to take precautions.

China has been doing this to American industries for decades.

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-china-64206950

It’s not unreasonable to assume an auto company is specifically targeted. And while extreme, not unheard of either.

But the first sentence specifically calls out all automakers of privacy nightmares.

That’s not what they said?

They said all do it. It’s just one company taking extra precautions.

Not sure how you got China isn’t stealing data from that.

So the general tailscale actually uses peer to peer wiregaurd connections. Headscale is the middle point to negotiate these wiregaurd connections.

So none of the traffic moves through the VPS.

As for a VPS itself, it’s noore unsafe than your local bare metal. It’s still an application publicly exposed and needs basic precautions like fail2ban or crowdsec