On Sun, Sep 19, 2004 at 04:16:39PM -0400, Noah Meyerhans wrote:
interfere with any random login based password guessing. Especially since, from what I hear about this scanner that's responsible for all these login attempts, it's trying mind-numbingly simple passwords, like root/root, guest/guest, empty passwords, and things like that.
There's more than one going around. There's one trying a limited number of simple combinations and there's something else trying to brute force things with a much more extensive algorithm. A suitably paranoid person would wonder if the first thing was just cover for the second. Mike Stone