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re: (b) Security Security through delegation vs security through obscurity imo here, follow simple things like use non-standard ports and your changes of getti
by w0m 9y ago
re: (b) Security
Security through delegation vs security through obscurity imo here, follow simple things like use non-standard ports and your changes of getting hacked are likely shockingly low even if your behind on patches.
- kcolford 9y agonmap, a standard pen tool, already sees through port mapping and other convenient obscurity tricks, there's just nothing like actually keeping your system up to date
- ocdtrekkie 9y agoI don't disagree with regards to "nothing like actually keeping your system up to date", but in terms of defense-in-depth, non-standard ports are not a bad idea. IIRC, people who have monitored the volume of attempts to connect on a open standard port and a nonstandard port are different by orders of magnitude. It won't help you much in stopping a dedicated human attacker, but it'll probably drastically reduce the number of automated attempts to attack your network device.
- hex-m 9y agoFreedomBox has unattended-upgrades enabled by default.