ssh default security risc

[Sandy Rutherford]

>>>>> On Thu, 3 Feb 2005 22:54:14 -0800, 
>>>>> "Ted Mittelstaedt" <tedm at 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