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Re:Security by obscurity is underrated by gowld on Friday September 11, 2020 @02:38PM (#24445930)
Why not? I'll run my automated port knocker
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Re:Security by obscurity is underrated by umvi on Friday September 11, 2020 @03:08PM (#24446241)
Huh? How would that work? You have no idea what my port knocking scheme is.

For all you know you have to knock ports 22, 46, 1776, and 8998 to the timing of "shave and a haircut" switching between udp and icmp along the way... Good luck, the entropy you have to overcome is astronomical.

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Re:Security by obscurity is underrated by minerjoe on Friday September 11, 2020 @03:14PM (#24446300)
I would thing that blocking IP's of insessant knockers would be easy to implement.
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Re:Security by obscurity is underrated by pravda on Friday September 11, 2020 @08:32PM (#24448796)
They use proxies! So many proxies.
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