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Ssh will not help you with anything that compromises your host’s security in some other way. Once an attacker has gained root access to a machine, he can then subvert ssh, too. If somebody malevolent has access to your home directory, then security is nonexistent. This is very much the case if your home directory is exported via NFS.
