HW/FW security researcher & Demoscene elder.

I started having arguments online back on Fidonet and Usenet. I’m too tired to care now.

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  • Still no. Here’s the reasoning: A well known SSHd is the most secure codebase you’ll find out there. With key-based login only, it’s not possible to brute force entry. Thus, changing port or running fail2ban doesn’t add anything to the security of your system, it just gets rid of bot login log entries and some - very minimal - resource usage.

    If there’s a public SSHd exploit out, attackers will portscan and and find your SSHd anyway. If there’s a 0-day out it’s the same.

    (your points 4 and 5 are outside the scope of the SSH discussion)




  • A few replies here give the correct advice. Others are just way off.

    To those of you who wrote anything else than “disable passwords, use key based login only and you’re good” - please spend more time learning the subject before offering up advice to others.

    (fail2ban is nice to run in addition, I do so myself, but it’s more for to stop wasting resources than having to do with security since no one is bruteforcing keys)






  • I don’t get it. They’re 17. They’re not kids. Wikipedia tells me the age of consent in the US varies from 13 to 17 (depending on age difference and if it’s a person in authority) which is actually partly lower than in Sweden (15).

    You seem to willingly uphold something you actually don’t believe in, even when just asked for your opinion. Why?









  • Hosted refugees.

    When Russia’s full scale invasion of Ukraine started in late feb 2022 we (Swedes) watched in horror as the people walked for days to get to southern Poland where the towns quickly tried to set them up with tents and basic services, looking for ways they could then move on within the EU.

    My wife took the decision that she wanted to help, in any way possible, and jumped in the car. She drove for 14 hours, slept in the car, picked up two families (mother/daughters) and brought them back here to Sweden. One of them we then housed in our guest house for a year before they decided that it was safe “enough” for them to move back to their home town.

    We had the opportunity and possibility. Not everyone has, the important part is to act in any way you can.