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Re: SSH and Telnet ports



Hi!

On Sun, Dec 14, 2008 at 8:48 PM, Dominik Schaefer <schaedpq2@xxxxxx> wrote:
> Concerning the aspect of using Tor to target others: I would be very
> surprised if anyone actually tries to use Tor for this, ordinary botnets of
> owned machines are completely sufficient.

Invalid SSH login attempts are often reported and some of systems in
botnets are taken down because of this. By hiding behind Tor network
they can make those reports useless thus systems in botnet will be
longer available to them.


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