break-in attempt in my machine

[Chris Green]

On Fri, Sep 02, 2016 at 06:59:29PM +0200, J. L. wrote:
> On 02.09.2016 16:57, Volker Wysk wrote:
> > Am Sonntag, 28. August 2016, 11:39:07 CEST schrieb Karl Auer:
> >> By the way, anyone that has ssh access open to the world MUST take
> >> extra precautions. At an absolute minimum, any account that can log in
> >> via ssh MUST have a VERY GOOD PASSWORD - twenty or thirty random
> >> characters including numbers, punctuation and both cases. Otherwise you
> >> WILL get hacked. 
> > 
> > I have a 9-letter fantasy word as password. Something like "schwurbelfu". Just 
> > lower case letters. So this is insecure? I doubt it could be cracked by 
> > trying.
> 
> Of course You could call me paranoid but passwords shorter than
> _at_least_ 20 random characters should be considered "obsolete" in these
> times (since among lots of other revelations the publications of Edward
> Snowden).
> 
Passwords are only 'easy to break' if one has access to the system
where they are stored.  It's not practical to brute force even a
fairly trivial password remotely.

So, yes I do have strong[ish] passwords but my main defence is simply
keeping my system physically secure and away from prying hands.

-- 
Chris Green