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		pepve on Sept 2, 2013 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Finally iptables works the same on every Linux dis... It's indeed a large amount of traffic. But it's not scary. None of it will get through if your SSH software is up to date, you have it configured properly, and user accounts are managed sanely. The attacks to be scared of are those that are actually targeted at you. And they will find the port SSH is running on either way.

Shish2k on Sept 3, 2013 [–]

> None of it will get through if your SSH software is up to date, you have it configured properly, and user accounts are managed sanely.

So in the majority of cases, traffic will get through? :P

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