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> But notice how you just did a much better job of explaining what this thing does without using any jargon at all.

There was plenty of jargon and acronyms like LAN and SSH. You're just used to those ones.

Perhaps if we were on Reddit, and also on a general subreddit, then people would speak in less technical terms.

Since this is HN, it’s almost expected the participants here would either know the terms, or at the very least be able to find out what they mean on their own and realize it’s not made up jargon but rather common industry terms.

Tailscale is not trying to sell to the average buyer, it’s trying to sell to a specific audience.

> Like they won’t get credit for knowing what a zero trust network is if they describe the concept in a way that regular people might understand.

I've been trying to get a definition of zero trust at $client from the security people who are pushing tools onto our platform, so we can have an honest conversation around threats and risks, and finding the best balance of tools, techniques and processes to achieve their desired outcomes.

Unfortunately, it seems like everybody just want "zero trust" because a vendor sold them on that idea and they gave money to the vendor, so now there's the need to justify that expense and "extract value" from the tool - even if it may in fact be worse than the controls that are already in place.