On 07/12/10 21:13, bofh wrote:
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> On Mon, Jul 12, 2010 at 4:41 PM, Leonardo Carneiro - Veltrac
> <lscarneiro@veltrac.com.br>  wrote:
>>>>> Well, them and anyone who knows how to half-assed run nmap or any other
>>>> numerous service fingerprinting utilities.
>>>
>>> Even with sshd moved, when I finally decided to block port 22, my
>>> bandwidth use dropped noticeably.
>>>
>> You made the point: bandwidth!
>
> umm...  this is *INSIDE* the corporate network.  If there's anyone
> portscanning my box, I want to know about it, especially since I have
> the power to go smack hands.
>
> And if there was someone capable of breaking ssh, that person would
> find it no matter what port it's on.
>
> He also did some other brilliant things such as set up a boot up
> password, bios password and other assorted "security" things.  Guess
> what happened?  He didn't tell me he did it, and he forgot the
> passwords.  He got to spend half a day in the data center rebuilding
> crap.
>
>

And the next week sweeping the floors?  :)