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And in this case you are putting the lock in a place that is not the doorknob, where an intruder will typically try to unlock the door.
by rwesty 6y ago
And in this case you are putting the lock in a place that is not the doorknob, where an intruder will typically try to unlock the door.
- samdixon 6y agoAlbeit a now invisible knob that must be searched for via a door scan. While I don’t personally switch my ssh port from default, I would imagine doing so would cut down on a ton of the noise from lowest common denominator ssh attempts.
- wutwutwutwut 6y agoI have changed some default ports and seeing the number of connection attempts drop from <many> down to close to zero was just nice. There are just fewer connections opened, fewer logs to analyze and so on. In my view, fewer connection attempts means less data to analyze which in my view is a security and cost benefit.
- shiftpgdn 6y agoMy entire house nearly instantly becomes invisible to anyone doing a door scan. This is what an effective psad/fail2ban setup can do.