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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  • This is the decentralized Internet. It will never function exactly as the centralized one.

    I’m old enough to have run a Fidonet node. When I moved house, the points under my node had to switch upstream.

    We do however need to work on tools to minimize friction when servers change so that users won’t need to more than a click or two.




  • 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?