Subj : Stupid Sysops & Nonstandard Ports
To   : dragon
From : Andre
Date : Sun Apr 03 2022 13:25:30

> Here are some actual numbers for those that care about those things.

> There are 2332 current active entries in the IPTIA database.  Of these,
> about 1050 are BBSes.  A little less than half of these (462) run on
> nonstandard ports.

What does that matter? It just says how people have configured their BBS. 

You're missing any info about what the risks are, have any been breached, etc.
I could easily make the opposite claims that most of these BBS have no regular
users other than the sysop, which is caused by being on a nonstandard port. I
have no data to support that, of course.

Point is that the first step in hardening is not changing to a nonstandard
port. It's just not.


- Andre

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