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not to underestimate the power of shodan, and oh god don't spin up a default mongo with no auth, but port knocking would seen to counteract this to enough of a degree, not to mention having a service only accessible via Tor.

https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Port_knocking#:~:text=Port%....



Yes, you can hide with a little bit of effort. Port knocking or Tor will stop almost any thing (but don't rely on it as the sole protection, just as another layer).

I like to prefix anything "I don't want scraped" with a random prefix, like domain.com/kwo4sx_grafana/ and nobody will find it (as long as you don't link to it anywhere). But I still have auth enabled, but at least I don't have to worry about any automated attacks exploiting it before I have time to patch.

Something as simple as moving SSH on a non standard port reduces the amount of noise from most automated scanners 99% (made up number, but a lot).


Have you had any problems with browsers leaking the prefixed sites, as seen here?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35703789




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