You misunderstand. Changing the port does nothing against targeted attacks and it's not about 'hiding' anything. The purpose is to take your host out of the sc

You misunderstand. Changing the port does nothing against targeted attacks and it's not about 'hiding' anything. The purpose is to take your host out of the scope of automatic scans which almost exclusively focus on the most common ports (22, 2222, 22222 ...).