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On 2025-01-28, Chris Elvidge  wrote:
>> A quick check on shodan shows 86362 hits for "ssh raspbian". If only a small
>> percentage of these use the default password, that is way too much.
>>
> But ssh is not enabled by default in Raspbian.

Good point (I was not sure - I always enable it, since my pis run headless).

However, I *do* remember news about lots of pis with default passwords being
exploited via ssh - but I can't find the sources for that.

Either way, making it difficult for the admin to mess things up is not a bad
idea.

cu
Michael
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Some people have no respect of age unless it is bottled.

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