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Why not just use SSH?
by Deukhoofd 7y ago
Why not just use SSH?
- frankzander 7y agobecause it's not hip anymore. This is for the beardy old unix guys who don't understand the whole new world in the clouds.
- Hamuko 7y agoPerhaps it has one S too many.
- atopuzov 7y agoBecause SSH might be blocked, and not only trough port 22 blocking but firewalls sniffing traffic and blocking on OpenSSH in the connection (eg. SSH-2.0-OpenSSH_8.1).
- diffeomorphism 7y agoThen this stuff would also be blocked for the exact same reason. And if it isn't, you will probably be fired for knowingly and willfully circumventing security measures.
- d4n 7y agoI have gotten around this by hosting SSHD on web ports before, or going through a SOCKS proxy.
- dTal 7y agoYou might be on a hostile, locked down client, on a hostile network. This lets you access a *nix machine you control from no more than an internet kiosk at a hotel.
- precurse 7y agoI definitely would not want to use a hostile machine to access my servers remotely, period. Sure, this will let you bypass outbound port restrictions, but it doesn't help in the slightest if every keystroke is keylogged.
- Fnoord 7y agoKeystrokes being logged could be avoided with 2FA plus not typing in sensitive content. That doesn't secure you against MITM from the machines. E.g. if the machine is taken over locally or remotely or there's spyware running on it, you could still end up compromised. (I'm not saying you should do this; you probably shouldn't.)