Wake up. Unless you are happy and want to permanently settle on the present stenographic techniques, you need people like this dude to figure out how they can be defeated.
Imagine if you had said the same thing when "ROT-13" was invented.
How about having your http server say it's running AolServer or something less crack-prone than IIS. Then the script-kiddy root-kit never tries the IIS exploit even when it does find the port.
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Wake up. Unless you are happy and want to permanently settle on the present stenographic techniques, you need people like this dude to figure out how they can be defeated. Imagine if you had said the same thing when "ROT-13" was invented.
How about having your http server say it's running AolServer or something less crack-prone than IIS. Then the script-kiddy root-kit never tries the IIS exploit even when it does find the port.