To put it lightly, the instance owner is sympathetic to grad and hexbear.

I run systemd with a different sshd service port and that’s all I changed

What do you mean? You literally just change the /etc/sshd config to point at a different port do you not?

:.|:;

It made them nervous for the same reason emulator devs don’t touch leaks with a ten foot pole, giving the megacorp any reason to argue your clean house reimplantation is anything but clean is just asking for trouble.