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Comment by unglaublich

2 days ago

I mean there are 65k possible ports so it's the equivalent of guessing an 16 bit password, i.e. two (extended) ascii characters. It's not very surprising that 'multiple bots' found it: a single `nmap` command will give you the open ports in a few seconds.

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