Brendan and his whole family are awesome. You used to be able to rent a room at the research station next to the telescope and he’d give you a tour of it too. Really cool.

Last I checked Tailscale is Canadian actually….but maybe they got bought out somewhere??

That’s what SSH keys are essentially.

Or using a hardware key for physical logins.

Both of those basically make your credentials a small encrypted key file instead of password.

Usernames and passwords really only exist as a “convenience”……both for lazy users and bad actors.