Subj : Re: BBS Population
To   : poindexter FORTRAN
From : Arelor
Date : Sun Oct 23 2022 16:49:15

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

 > -=> Nightfox wrote to paulie420 <=-
 > 
 >  Ni> I had heard there's still a big BBS (mainly underground) scene in China
 >  Ni> due to their information censorship.  I've been curious to see if I can
 >  Ni> try using some of them, but I imagine most of them are probably in
 >  Ni> Chinese, which I don't read..
 > 
 > China doesn't have a lot of copper lines, so analog modems would have a
 > problem. BBS networks with analog modems passing data posed a monitoring
 > challenge that made them ideal for information passing. With a population
 > with cell phones I'm not sure how you'd do it.
 > 
 > BBSing is notoriously insecure, with passwords and data sent in cleartext by
 > default. There's some options to run bink with TLS and others have created
 > mesh VPNs between nodes, but there's a long way to make it easy.
 > 
 > 
 > ... Don't avoid what is easy
 > --- MultiMail/DOS v0.52
 >  * Origin: realitycheckBBS.org -- information is power. (21:4/122)

You'd be surprised. Some censors don't bother censoring primitive protocols because it
is so much work. For example, I have heard Gopher is not controlled in Iran. It is
just not worth their effort.

Obviously, such safety only lasts until something turns popular.

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