SSH Is the Most Underrated Platform in Tech

A few months ago, I watched a contractor spend forty-five minutes trying to reach a Postgres instance on an internal network. He installed a VPN client, fought with split tunneling, restarted his DNS resolver twice, and opened a ticket with IT. I was sitting next to him. I typed ssh -L 5432:db-host:5432 bastion , pointed my client at localhost, and had a query running before he got his VPN…