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Old 19th June 2011
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Originally Posted by Oko View Post
It is disabled by default in 4.9 release I would suggest moving ssh to some higher port like 8888. That would get rid of 95% of idiots. I would most definitely control out bound traffic even if you are the only user of the computer.
I actually do employ security by obscurity by using odd port numbers for SSH and VNC. Some people frown upon this method but for networks that I work with I definitely do this and it works well in my opinion.
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