[k_roy]

You want to talk about spooky campfire stories? Let’s have another OpenSSL/ssl zero day.

The point is it takes a script kiddy about 5 minutes to scan the whole 4 billion IPs for your port 22 server.

It takes about 90 seconds for the fact that you opened up a random high numbered port that is an SSH service to show up on the list of people that are probably exponentially more intelligent than the normal script kiddy scanning the internet

This does not make you more or less likely to be hacked just for having SSH open. But hey,go go gadget whatever.

[Dylan16807]

> This does not make you more or less likely to be hacked just for having SSH open.

A) The comment you responded to didn't claim you're less likely to be hacked, they said it cuts down on log spam.

B) When you talked about just becoming of more interest to non-benevolent places, was that not a suggestion you're more likely to be hacked? Then I think you phrased that pretty badly.

[k_roy]

> “ More interest to who?”

And

> elite hacking crew

It was your comment. Not to mention the blog post to which I originally responded to said “ you might not want to put your servers on low numbered IPs “

Step 1, know the difference between UDP and TCP and even a few of the implications

Yep. Party on

[Dylan16807]

I did say those words. And I said them after the comment I'm asking about. They are irrelevant to my question, because I'm asking what the comment I originally replied to meant.

You said "the minute you change the port, you just become of more interest" and then talked about places that are less "benevolent" than shodan.

Is being of "more interest" to less "benevolent" places supposed to imply an increased risk of being hacked, or not?