Re: Re: Concepts: Security and Obscurity

I am jumping in late on this and don't know if this was brought up
already so I apologize in advanced if it has... but what about worms
and that are set to scan networks looking for services on specific
ports? If you change the default port for a service, that alone could
save your machine from being compromised in a 0-day exploit from a
worm that only checks for the service on the default port.

- Justin Lintz

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