Subj : Re: SSH on BBSes
To   : echicken
From : 2twisty
Date : Fri Apr 01 2022 10:17:11

 ec> Thank you for pointing this out; I've harped on it before and it needs
 ec> to be said on occasion.
I agree; I have even seen echo content on web sites that indexed NNTP.


 ec> This isn't to say that people can't or shouldn't try to set up BBSs so
 ec> that they're less discoverable, not searchable from the web, etc., but
 ec> I'm not a fan of this medium being sold wholesale as some safe haven

I've more been talking about securing and encrypting the CONNECTION, more so than the content.  Any BBS sysop that wants to can leak any info they want, so true "privacy" isn't there unless we posted messages encrypted with PGP or the like.  But then that fills a message base with gibberish and doesn't promote communication or community.

If set up right, LOCAL groups can be private, provided that the sysop and users respect that privacy.....

These modern boards are no more "private" or "underground" than the BBSes of old; but we can make them more secure and add a modicum of privacy from network-level malcontents that would want to snoop your Telnet traffic.  Given the modern internet speed and modern hardware, the overhead in terms of bandwidth and compute to deal with SSH are really minimal.

--- Mystic BBS v1.12 A47 2021/12/24 (Linux/64)
 * Origin: The Ratrace Losers (21:3/166)

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