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> I'm not a proper sysadmin, but when I play about on EC2 I always configure the security-group to block incoming connections to TCP port 22 except from whitelisted IPs.

Because I have multiple IPs I connect to, most of which are unknown. Maybe I'm connecting from a coffee shop, maybe from a tethered phone, maybe from work, maybe from an airplane, or a train, or a friend's wifi, etc.




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