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yjftsjthsd-hlast Saturday at 10:57 PM3 repliesview on HN

The server was already exposed. All this does is remove obscurity


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dijitlast Saturday at 11:51 PM

I wish this trend of “security through obscurity” should mean that all info should just be exposed would die, its silly and lacks basis in reality.

Even within infosec, certain types of information disclosure are considered security problems. Leaking signed up user information or even inodes on the drives can lead to PCI-DSS failures.

Why is broadcasting your records treated differently? Because people would find the information eventually if they scanned the whole internet? Even then they might not due to SNI; so this is actually giving critical information necessary for an attack to attackers.

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homebrewerlast Saturday at 11:59 PM

IME, moving ssh off the standard port reduces bot scanning traffic by >99%. Not only it means less noise in the logs (and thus higher SNR), but also lowers the chance you're hit by spray-and-pray in case there's a zero day in sshd (or any other daemon really).

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afavourlast Saturday at 11:18 PM

Which is something that makes a notable difference. It’s telling the bots the OP listed are trying Vite endpoints, they’re targeting folks doing short term local web development. Removing obscurity and indicating relative likelihood of still being online is a big shift.