Subj : Re: Anonymous SSH login
To   : Exodus
From : Al
Date : Thu Mar 18 2021 05:09 pm

  Re: Re: Anonymous SSH login
  By: Exodus to Al on Thu Mar 18 2021 11:25 am

 Ex> What info? Their HANDLE? It's not like you are taking credit cards for
 Ex> payments or have their SSN on file.

Of course not. We are not bankers.

 Al>> So people can't snoop your info.

 Ex> What people?!

Any number of people. I'm sorry I can't introduce you!

 Ex> A name and a BBS password ... yeah, yeah they should. That's a stupid
 Ex> comment. Because you know there are people out there just waiting in
 Ex> coffee shops and diners waiting to grab someone's BBS info. Then black
 Ex> mail them for 3 google play cards and a steam card so they don't tell
 Ex> people their handle is "cry baby" .... Yeah, I see that happening
 Ex> everyday. Get real.

Oh, it's real.

In the beginning when using dial-up modems BBSing was absolutely secure. Then the internet happened. That's great but we needed to do something since modems were not being installed anymore so we went to telnet. That's great too but completely insecure.

There is such a thing as secure telnet on port 992 by default but it was never embraced in the BBS community.

I suppose secure telnet and ssh are secure but complex perhaps and not easy to implement and so it hasn't been implemented all around.

BBBS and BTERM use an MD5SUM when exchanging info over telnet. Something like that might be easier/good enough to implement but there is no standard.

 Ttyl :-),
         Al

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