On Mon, Feb 22, 2016 at 04:19:24PM +0100, Carlos Alberto Lopez Perez wrote: > So, putting it into other words... The use case was actually to make > easier to detect vulnerable systems to anyone without access to the > system by inspecting the DebianBanner version of the SSH servers, right?
People can do that anyway just by seeing whether their attacks work; plenty of actual attackers just scattergun their attacks. Hiding the version doesn't particularly help, but giving network administrators the ability to efficiently shut off access to vulnerable systems can do. -- Colin Watson [cjwat...@debian.org]
