Re: BBS security (was Freenet   
     By: Jas Hud to Voxigo on Mon Feb 08 2010 06:51 am   
      
    >   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.   
    >    
    >    
   How about if they want to see if it is "shitty stock board" or   
   something BEFORE they sign up? How would they know? We're not   
   talking about users here. We're talking about _potential_ users.   
   /v   
      
      
      
      
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