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I suppose it may do that, but naïvely switching to an alternate port may lull one into a false sense of security: https://utcc.utoronto.ca/~cks/space/blog/sysadmin/SSHAltPort...

Shodan will find and fingerprint you easily enough.




In theory. I have a server running on a weird port, but with fail2ban just in case. I haven't had even a blip of an attempt on it.




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