[Info-vax] VSI OpenVMS Hobbyist Program Announced.

[Tim Sneddon]

Bill Gunshannon <bill.gunshannon at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 7/4/19 6:21 AM, VAXman- at SendSpamHere.ORG wrote:
>> In article <26f17cd0-489c-4cc2-8275-89cb9faebd35 at googlegroups.com>, Steven Schweda <sms.antinode at gmail.com> writes:
>>>> I never understood this non-standard port thing. [...]
>>>
>>>    If you expose a server at port 22 for a while, and then
>>> switch it to a different (non-standard) port, then I predict
>>> that you'll see the difference.
>> 
>> ;)
>> 
> 
> Security by obscurity has never been a good idea and
> very seldom successful.
> 

Moving otherwise secure traffic (we are talking SSH here) to a
non-standard port is hardly "security by obscurity".  That would
be more like moving telnet traffic to a non-standard port.

Regards, Tim.