Re: MORE SSH Hacking: heads-up

From: Jorge Fábregas (fabregasj_at_prtc.net)
Date: 07/31/04

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Date: Sat, 31 Jul 2004 00:02:38 -0400

    On Friday 30 July 2004 6:36 pm, Sam Varshavchik wrote:
    > There are more than sixty thousand other ports to choose from.  Pick one,
    > and have portsentry bitch-slap anyone poking your port 22.

    I totally agree. That's "Security WITH obscurity" which is not the same as
    "Security THRU obscurity". 

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