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		ggm on Oct 24, 2022 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Security through obscurity is underrated (2020) I do. I see no SSH attempts on the active high port. None. It may only be a matter of time of course. I continue to see French metric tonnes of attempts to subvert mysql and the Web. We've been on the shifted port for more than 5 years.

illiac786 on Oct 24, 2022 [–]

I can confirm it makes a huge difference for SIP as well. Toll fraud attempts are not making the logs completely unreadable anymore when using a non-standard port.

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