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Re:Port knocking by ape4 on Friday May 15, 2020 @05:45PM (#23197854)
If I was an evil hacker I would look at that port and other variants of 22 like 2200, 2222, etc for people's ssh.
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Re:Port knocking by metalliqaz on Friday May 15, 2020 @09:33PM (#23199626)
and then all you'd have to do is compromise SSH on my fully patched system

of course the point is not to be able to withstand an attack by a persistent attacker. it prevents my logs from filling up with the constant scans from scripts

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