Subj : Re: BBS Population
To   : poindexter FORTRAN
From : Nightfox
Date : Sun Oct 23 2022 13:01:33

  Re: Re: BBS Population
  By: poindexter FORTRAN to Nightfox on Sun Oct 23 2022 08:48 am

 Ni>> I had heard there's still a big BBS (mainly underground) scene in
 Ni>> China due to their information censorship.  I've been curious to see
 Ni>> if I can try using some of them, but I imagine most of them are
 Ni>> probably in Chinese, which I don't read..

 PF> China doesn't have a lot of copper lines, so analog modems would have a 
 PF> problem. BBS networks with analog modems passing data posed a monitoring 
 PF> challenge that made them ideal for information passing. With a population 
 PF> with cell phones I'm not sure how you'd do it.

 PF> BBSing is notoriously insecure, with passwords and data sent in cleartext
 PF> by default. There's some options to run bink with TLS and others have
 PF> created mesh VPNs between nodes, but there's a long way to make it easy.

I imagined their BBSes would be over the internet, like most of ours now, rather than using dialup over copper lines.  I'd heard there's still a fairly big BBS scene there..  I don't know if people use SSH or something if they're concerned about security, or maybe their government just doesn't monitor it much so they don't worry about it.  I don't know..

Nightfox
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