Subj : Re: Oprah Pay
To   : Ron L.
From : Aaron Thomas
Date : Fri Nov 22 2024 10:48:36

 RL> A while back, I set up a BBS on an old Raspberry PI setup that I had. 
 RL> It was an experiment to test out some ideas.  Part of the experiment was
 RL> that I needed to access it from work - so I opened it to the Internet on
 RL> the router and set the port to something weird.
 RL> 
 RL> Keep in mind that at no time did I advertise this BBS.  I did not post
 RL> my IP address and say that there was a BBS here.  Nothing.  But one day
 RL> someone logged in as a new user.  So I took care of that - actually a
 RL> couple of times because the guy couldn't understand things.

That's weird. I wonder if they actually ever accomplish anything with all that port scanning and password guessing? I'm confident that the most important web portals (govt, military, corporations, etc) have remote access (to important stuff) disabled.

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