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   The Natural Philosopher  wrote:   
   > On 29/01/2024 12:19, Chris Green wrote:   
   > > The Natural Philosopher  wrote:   
   > >> On 29/01/2024 04:54, 68g.1499 wrote:   
   > >>> North Korea is not   
   > >>>     going to spend five days worth of CPU time to crack your   
   > >>>     little home Pi and its valuable horde of "Rick and Morty"   
   > >>>     vids. Your home connection is likely too slow to be very   
   > >>>     useful for launching broadscale attacks on other systems   
   > >>>     as well.   
   > >>   
   > >> Indeed. I've two servers on the open internet with open ssh ports . In 8   
   > >> years although there is a constant stream of login attempts no one has   
   > >> guessed the correct user name  - let alone the password.   
   > >>   
   > >> People get paranoid about stuff they think they know about and forget   
   > >> the simple things.   
   > >> A  long but easily memorable string like  my.cat.hates.PIZZA! will   
   > >> probably fall to a dictionary attack in a few thousand hours, but   
   > >> really, who cares?   
   > >>   
   > > I've never understood how this can work.  If you type a wrong password   
   > > to ssh it will wait several seconds before allowing you to try again.   
   > > In addition it will throw you off completely after three failures and   
   > > you'd have to start all over.  This is default ssh, no fail2ban or   
   > > anything like that.   
   >   
   > Not sure how it works, but I see series of attacks spaced about 5   
   > seconds apart. Usually from different IP addresses   
   >   
   Well, as I said, at 5 seconds per attempt a dictionary attack is   
   hopeless.   
      
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   Chris Green   
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