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lsllc on Sept 21, 2020 | parent | context | favorite | on: Moving your SSH port isn’t security by obscurity

This is absolutely true. I use fail2ban and I often find that it's using rather more CPU than I'd like. Sounds like moving my SSH port might solve that!

ryanlol on Sept 22, 2020 [–]

>I use fail2ban

Why? Unnecessary attack surface that provides no tangible benefit.

Sketchy parsers operating on untrusted, unstructured log data. fail2ban is worse than useless

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