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Re:Obscurity: Does Changing Your SSH Port Lower Your Risk? by njharman on Friday February 18, 2011 @02:35PM (#2236888)
> raises the bar for getting into your server slightly,

Talking about bots/viruses/script kiddies and not targeted attacks. 18,000 to 5 is not what I would call slightly. In fact I would call it 4 orders of magnitude greater. Extremely greater.

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Re:Obscurity: Does Changing Your SSH Port Lower Your Risk? by johnthedebs on Friday February 18, 2011 @03:25PM (#2237088)
There would be fewer hits on the port sure, but it wouldn't really raise the bar to getting in, which is the point he was trying to make.

Obviously, not all 18,000 of those attempts were going to succeed. Finding the port is the easy part.

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