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Ironically, ssh'ing into a random server is the exact thing you shouldn't do if you aren't patched.

Make sure you patch BEFORE doing something like ssh'ing into whoami.filippo.io "just because someone on the internet told me to"

This site is (from what I can tell) not malicicous, but copy pasting scripts and blindly following advice from the internet is a prime example of how an exploit would occur.



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