Re: BBS security (was Freenet   
     By: Voxigo to echicken on Thu Feb 04 2010 03:06 am   
      
    > Actually, I'm glad they don't fetch much attention. Part of the   
    > reason this subject interests me, and why I changed the subject   
    > line, is the question of BBS security. I am very surprised at how   
    > many BBSs require enough information to get a credit card in your   
    > name, even just to find out what they have to offer. Some of that,   
    > such as phone number, is a hangover from the old days when many   
    > didn't have call display and had to pay for lines to keep the board   
    > up. Nowadays, I think it is highly inapropriate to be asking for   
    > someone's sex and phone number. I wonder what's up with that. It   
    > seems to me that a BBS is a great phishing oppertunity. Except,   
    > like you say, there are only five of us, and I'm probably the only   
    > old fart here. Probably not a lot of phishing bait among the other   
      
      
   well if you dont like it, dont sign up!   
      
   if there's a bbs that asks for a phone number, i just put all 1's.   
      
   nobody wants to open a credit card account with your information.   
      
   if people have a problem with the questions i ask [age, sex, and the    
   inforform stuff i dont read] , they can call some shitty stock board.   
      
      
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