[BUGS] Constant SSH login spam

[Edwin Groothuis]

On Tue, Feb 05, 2008 at 09:19:30AM +1100, Martin Barry wrote:
> It's security by obscurity and it will only work until it gets popular and
> then intruders will start port scanning before launching the dictionary
> attack.

It's not to make your machine more secure, it's to save yourself
the CPU cycles by these kind of attacks.

Edwin
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