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Vallarkodath: > haha. not really! if u have really managed an online server u'd have > seen tons of attacks and login attempts on your default ports by bots > looking around for weaker systems. But what you suggest doesn't increase the security. It just reduces the noise you see. > This is hence especially helpful, I myself have seen these bot attacks > reduce to almost zero once i had changed the port numbers of various > services on my system. Noise reduction. Why do you think you are more safe with a vulnerable (or weakly password protected) service on a non-standard port than on a standard port? Regards, Daniel -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-security-REQUEST with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmaster
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