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		AlexCoventry on April 1, 2024 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Xzbot: Notes, honeypot, and exploit demo for the x... > say that port knocking is pointless and security theatre Who was saying that?

password4321 on April 1, 2024 | [–]

https://hn.algolia.com/?query=port%20knocking%20obscurity&ty...

20200515 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23187662

etc.

AlexCoventry on April 1, 2024 | | [–]

Thanks.

rdtsc on April 1, 2024 | [–]

I've heard it many times in the form of "security through obscurity, lol! you obviously, don't know what you're doing".

Yeah, it's a "straw man" pretending the person they are addressing was just planning on running telnet with port knocking.

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