<div dir="ltr">That's not necessarily the best kind of password... see <a href="http://xkcd.com/936">http://xkcd.com/936</a>/ and then <a href="http://tech.dropbox.com/?p=165">http://tech.dropbox.com/?p=165</a><br><br>
-Avi<br><br><br>On Thu, Jun 14, 2012 at 6:23 AM, jay binks <<a href="mailto:jaybinks@gmail.com">jaybinks@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>> Strong passwords are a great start, but fail2ban does a little more than<br>> this.<br>
><br>> you could move off port 5060 to something un-conventional, meaning your less<br>> likely to get scanned / brute forced.<br>><br>> Jay<br>><br>> On 14 June 2012 12:27, ocset <<a href="mailto:ocset@the800group.com">ocset@the800group.com</a>> wrote:<br>
>><br>>> Hi<br>>><br>>> I have deployed Freeswiitch on windows 7 and since there is no fail2ban<br>>> on windows, I was wondering what the real risk is with opening it up to<br>>> the internet. If I was to ensure that all users and passwords were<br>
>> extremely difficult to guess (passwords like "2$53E_d7?^2!3s$"), what<br>>> are the risks that I am exposing myself to? Is there a type of DoS for<br>>> voip where hackers can just flood my system with requests simply to be<br>
>> malicious?<br>>><br>>> There are VB windows scripts available that emulate what fail2ban does<br>>> on Linux but I was just wondering whether I really need to implement<br>>> this level of security if I can control the password complexity in<br>
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