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Old 01-23-2012, 05:41 AM  
raymor
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Originally Posted by CYF View Post
even better, use ssh public keys.

Keys avoid any possibility of success. A firewall avoids wasting resources on attempts.

A lot of people use strong passwords, a vew use passphrases, but way too many webmasters use "admin admin", "qwerty" and other dumb shit. We get webmaster passwords daily of course and I'd say about 10% are really bad. Use LONG passwords, please.
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