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Comment Re:How do the botnets know it's OpenBSD? (Score 1) 327

How would the botnet know they are attacking an OpenBSD box (vs Linux or something else)?

The remote side identifies the version of OpenSSH, which will also often include the platform it's on:


[dave@supernova ~]$ ssh -v hostname 2>&1 | grep version
debug1: Remote protocol version 2.0, remote software version OpenSSH_5.1p1 Debian-2
debug1: Local version string SSH-2.0-OpenSSH_5.1

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