[hackernewsdhsu]

Security through obscurity is a tool not a solution to security.

Use it as the last thing to do, not the 1st. If I run SSH on say 42531 it will be found, absolutely.... But 99%+ of automated scans will never see it: benefit me. But that is after all the sshd_config, PAM stuff, patching, misc hardening, etc is done 1st.

That's a worn out example, and just a point (I run on 22)... The benefit was to me that most skiddy scanners will never see it, and if I avoid the one actor out there that's looking to mass exploit an unpublished 0day, then if it's the last thing I did, I may have bought some extra time, cause they're going for 22.