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When will people realise that removing login attempts is meaningless security theatre? It's like when some CIO or politican says "we've been attacking 29 Million times today".

This is why companies pay for https://www.greynoise.io/ so they don't need to worry about meaningless stuff.




Its not about stopping brainless botnets from actually logging in with root:toor 9 million times, its about removing clutter from your logs so you can more easily tell when something actually dangerous is happening.




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