Horrifyingly Effective SSH

A Confession So, in my last job, I was banned from using SSH. I’m only kind of joking when I say that. I was something of a network duct-taper. We had networks in different clouds with bastion servers, and weird firewalls and other restrictions that would come out later in testing. My Boss was a badass, constantly developing scripts and tools as fast as he could to answer weird edge cases that some big-wig wanted immediately. The problem is that in this environment of “Move Fast and Break Things”, setting up a proper network architecture was tricky. We needed proof of concepts that could bridge resources from multiple networks. There were official routers that we were given access to, but with things shifting from one cloud to another so fast, and with the routers being more complex than I could mess with without risking a breach, I would often cheat. ...

April 8, 2025 · 9 min