Is Tailscale safe?

Clean risk

Connects devices and workloads through a WireGuard-based Tailscale overlay network.

This extension supports Tailscale’s secure connectivity platform for creating mesh networks across devices, users, and remote resources. The description says it uses identity-based access controls and works across environments such as home labs, businesses, cloud workloads, Kubernetes, IoT, CI/CD, and AI-related systems. No browser extension permissions are listed in the manifest.

Tailscale Inc.v1.96.5Safari Extensions
0Risk

AI-generated. Findings may contain errors. Those marked Verified have been manually reviewed.

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Where it sends data

Destinations our analysis observed Tailscale contacting. Sending data somewhere is not a finding on its own - an extension that syncs your settings has to talk to its own server - but it is where your data can go, and who else it goes to.

  • Tailscale

    Tailscale sends data to Tailscale. Named as a recipient in this extension's own analysis.

Updated 21 September 2026io.tailscale.ipn.macos.network-extension