Subj : Re: SSH on BBSes
To   : 2twisty
From : echicken
Date : Fri Apr 01 2022 16:32:20

  Re: Re: SSH on BBSes
  By: 2twisty to echicken on Fri Apr 01 2022 10:17:11

 2t> I've more been talking about securing and encrypting the CONNECTION, more
 2t> so than the content. Any BBS sysop that wants to can leak any info they
 2t> want, so true "privacy" isn't there unless we posted messages encrypted

I haven't been following the thread closely, so please don't take it as though I was criticizing you or anyone here specifically. I just like to see the "privacy" matter being raised once in a while.

Securing our connections and sessions has plenty of merit in its own right, including privacy for users when (and where from) they use the system. I'm sure I could come up with lots of other supporting arguments.

 2t> If set up right, LOCAL groups can be private, provided that the sysop and
 2t> users respect that privacy..... 

Yep, like I said, no reason people can't or shouldn't try. Unfortunately I've encountered the perception that privacy is there by default, by angry people who didn't like me putting their nonsense on the web. (Look at all of those Synchronet BBS websites out there; many of them are my fault.)

 2t> These modern boards are no more "private" or "underground" than the BBSes
 2t> of old; but we can make them more secure and add a modicum of privacy from

Yes, we can and should if it suits us. It's just good to talk about this once in a while so that people know where their privacy begins and ends, etc.
  
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