Somehow with a painfully thin straw of ssh bandwidth and only one hour of high-latency, low-reliability Internet access each evening, I was able to kludge together a lockout of the kiddies within a couple of days and before they were able to compile an exploit kit. When I reached Sydney, one of the first things I did from my hotel room was rip out the last bits of public-facing PHP exposure so I'd never have to worry about that again.
BTW, anyone in this situation should immediately install mosh . It's pretty amazingly better, can even fall over between multiple network connections.
Or install it now just in case you have to tether to a marginal cellular/wan connection.
Blurb from https://mosh.mit.edu/: Remote terminal application that allows roaming, supports intermittent connectivity, and provides intelligent local echo and line editing of user keystrokes. Mosh is a replacement for SSH. It's more robust and responsive, especially over Wi-Fi, cellular, and long-distance links. Mosh is free software, available for GNU/Linux, FreeBSD, Solaris, Mac OS X, and Android. _______________________________________________ vox-tech mailing list vox-tech@lists.lugod.org http://lists.lugod.org/mailman/listinfo/vox-tech
