[NBLUG/talk] I'm getting ssh scanned! Should I be worried?

Ross Thomas boscorama at fastmail.us
Sat Oct 23 15:48:59 PDT 2004


On Sat, 23 Oct 2004 15:28:23 -0700, "Dave Sisley" <dsisley at arczip.com>
said:
> 
> On Sat, Oct 23, 2004 at 10:22:09AM -0700, Augie Schwer wrote while
> swinging a pocket watch back and forth and telling me how sleepy I
> feel:

[snip]
> > 
> > ... Do not SSH from the Sonic.net shell ...
> > 
> 
> [Emoticon with glazed eyes, looking far into the distance yet
> displaying no actual emotion]
> 
> yes... I hear... and obey...

Not so fast....

There are ways to do it.  Most of which rely on private (possibly
statically
linked) copies of the binaries that can be MD5 verified prior to use.

It all depends on how much effort you wish to put into it.  :-)

HTH

Ross.




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