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Date:      Sat, 5 Feb 2005 00:48:22 -0800
From:      Sandy Rutherford <sandy@krvarr.bc.ca>
To:        "Ted Mittelstaedt" <tedm@toybox.placo.com>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   RE: ssh default security risc
Message-ID:  <16900.34902.204175.909440@szamoca.krvarr.bc.ca>
In-Reply-To: <LOBBIFDAGNMAMLGJJCKNKEDLFAAA.tedm@toybox.placo.com>
References:  <20050204060106.GB51807@gothmog.gr> <LOBBIFDAGNMAMLGJJCKNKEDLFAAA.tedm@toybox.placo.com>

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>>>>> On Thu, 3 Feb 2005 22:54:14 -0800, 
>>>>> "Ted Mittelstaedt" <tedm@toybox.placo.com> said:

 > restrictions somehow doesen't exist.  Not to mention that even without a
 > static IP assigned
 > to your home or other locations that you normally ssh in from, it's
 > pretty
 > simple to block off huge chunks of the Internet, particularly blocks
 > assigned
 > to Red China, where a huge amount of cracking and spamming originates
 > from.

For what it's worth (not much), most of the cracking attempts that
have been showing up recently in my logs are from the USA.  Of course,
I can still go ahead and block the entire address range of the ISP.

Sandy



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