Hi,

On Thu, 16 Oct 2008, jam wrote:

> Security through complexity is dumb and ends up biting you:

Security by obscurity will probably work against brute force ssh worms, but
is less likely to work where there is a determined attack. 

> My server is on a 192.168. From the WORLD it is only available via a non 
> standard port, internally 22 and ltsp is bog standard.

A portscan and telnet to each open port will quickly reveal your open sshd
to someone who actually wants to get into _your_ system.  Perhaps that will
never happen to you?  Fair enough then.

Gavin


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