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I Left Port 22 Open on the Internet for 54 Days. Here's Who Showed Up. (arman-bd.hashnode.dev)
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Edit: The post was probably heavily AI written and contains mistakes to that effect, which is unfortunate. The data in general is still interesting though.

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[-] frongt@lemmy.zip 1 points 4 weeks ago

It's possible it was something misconfigured, a poorly-written script, or a bug in some software causing unexpected behavior. At the scale of the Internet, all of those are very possible.

It could also be the Internet equivalent of a numbers station.

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