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jgrahamc on May 22, 2016 | parent | context | favorite | on: TOTP SSH port fluxing

The idea was that if you sent a packet to a decoy port then your IP was banned.

ryanlol on May 22, 2016 [–]

I don't think shimmer will catch half open connections, and if it did you could somewhat easily get large parts of the internet banned.

jgrahamc on May 22, 2016 | [–]

Maybe not. It's been 8 years since I last looked at that code...

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