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Security and Obscurity: Does Changing Your SSH Port Lower Your Risk? (dmiessler.com)
4 points by chaostheory on Dec 12, 2008 | hide | past | favorite | 3 comments


There are of course other camouflage techniques other than just changing the port number. You could try port knocking using something like my tumbler project: http://tumbler.sourceforge.net/


Obscurity does increase security. The problem is depending on obscurity for security. The article mentions camouflage on tanks. The tanks don't rely solely on the camouflage for protection. It merely augments their protection!


It may not lower your risk, but it can lower your annoyance level.




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