Re: Bbs Security (was Freenet   
     By: MIKE POWELL to RASSILON on Sun Feb 07 2010 09:26 am   
      
    > ³ Not neccessarily true.  If I feel like a SysOp is being too intrusive and   
    > ³ asking me for too much personal information I'll hang up.  And I'm a   
    > ³ goody-two-shoes.   
    > ÀÄ[R=>MP]   
    >    
    > Your loss.  Like I said, it ain't always the sysop.  Some of these BBS   
    > systems have that stuff hard-coded.  If it ain't open source, or isn't in a   
    > language you program in, you can't turn it off.   
    >    
    > For example, I changed one of the questions from asking for a street address   
    > to asking where the user heard about the BBS.  I was able to change the scre   
    > that the user is shown with that question, and the prompt itself, but the   
    > software still requires some sort of answer (and it has to be at least 2   
    > words).   
    >    
    > OTOH, I can't change the phone number question because it is expecting a   
    > number in a certain format.  All I can do is tell the user that they can   
    > enter all 5's and hope they can read.   
    >    
    > But I at least want to know where they are calling from (city & state or   
    > country).  I figure I have a right to know that.   
    >    
    > You have to remember, when you are on a BBS, you are on someone else's   
    > PERSONAL computer.  It ain't at all like the rest of the Internet.  Because   
    > you are logged onto their personal machine, they may feel they have a right   
    > to know something about the person that is on there.   
    >    
    > You're thinking "I don't want to tell them too much or they might do   
    > something bad to me," but you have to remember, they are trusting you with   
    > their equipment.  They may not want to trust just anyone, no matter how   
    > hacker-proof they may think their software/setup is.   
    >    
    > ##MMR 2.61á.  !link R  2-06-10 21:52   
      
   Just out of curiosity, what would be the difference between   
   logging into a computer that is running Maximus, and say one   
   which is running apache? I have both blogs and web pages out   
   there and I don't ask anything from my users. Anybody can   
   go directly there, or get referred from Google. And anybody   
   can post on the blogs. I'm not getting this. Is it because   
   the coputer with the BBS is more often in someone's home.   
   Is location that important? Just asking...   
   /v   
      
      
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