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jrockway on July 25, 2011 | parent | context | favorite | on: Who's your SSH buddy?

When attacking a bunch of systems, I'd simply try one key after another on each system.

This was a good idea in 1990. But now you get IP-banned after three bad login attempts, so you have to be smarter.

vog on July 26, 2011 [–]

Good point. However, that's what botnets are for. Why "wasting" those for distributed denial of service if you could break in instead?

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