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		uladzislau on Nov 20, 2013 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Weak passwords brute forced Can Fail2ban http://www.fail2ban.org help in this case?

nobodyshere on Nov 20, 2013 [–]

Not really. Some ISP provide same external IP to multiple users and you have to take that into account. I think otherwise a good part of github's users would never be able to access it.

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