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Old 08-31-2004, 04:22 PM  
Varius
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Originally posted by liquidmoe
That prevents people from entering by guessing common passwords or otherwise discovering a password since the passes would change every 10 seconds. However, most servers are broken into through imporperly configured system daemons or taking advantage of holes in software or the OS itself. Which doesnt have anything to do with knowing or entering the password, so for those kind of breakins that system you implemented doesnt do anything to protect your servers.
Well, first we run FreeBSD which is less exploited than Windows/Linux to my knowledge.

Second, none of our servers have external IP addresses, so they cannot be reached. He would have to exploit our BigIP F5s, which is quite difficult to do.
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