Homelab Hero · No. 012: your result

Second-best call. 40 Hero Points.

New passwords and a killed session close the door you know about, and that earns the partial credit. But a box an intruder has already logged into may carry persistence passwords do not touch — an added key, a new account, a cron job — and you have left it online, on the forwarded port, while you watch for the one move you can see.

The lesson: Rotating credentials closes the known door. It does not clear a box someone has already been inside.

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