Need urgent help regarding security
Peter C. Lai
sirmoo at cowbert.2y.net
Mon Nov 21 12:42:41 PST 2005
On Mon, Nov 21, 2005 at 12:35:44PM -0800, Bigby Findrake wrote:
> I'd just like to make a small contribution to this discussion.
>
> While most of us understand the merits and flaws of security through
> obscurity, I would like to point out the semantic fact that the phrase is,
> indeed, "security *through* obscurity", that while not flawless, obscurity
> is another path to security, that it is (more) difficult to attack the
> host you cannot see, (more) difficult to exploit the flaw you cannot
> detect, (more) difficult to connect to the daemon you do not know is
> listening.
>
You can also couple this with port-knocking (or even just port-knocking
on 22).
>
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Peter C. Lai
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