Subj : Re: Computer Kits
To   : apam
From : deon
Date : Sat Jan 29 2022 16:51:21

  Re: Re: Computer Kits
  By: apam to boraxman on Fri Jan 28 2022 09:25 pm

 >  > That is what I like about BBS's.  I can talk to people with Silicon
 >  > Valley editoralising, without surveillance, without having the
 >  > conversation be the record of the world.  I kind of do wonder about
 >  > how 'private' it really is. I mean, I know its not secret, but its not
 >  > that public.
 >
 > It is all exposed via BBSes with Web interfaces that have guest access (Synchronet) then indexed by google.
 >
 > So yeah, it's really not private at all, and no less public than any web
 > forum.

So I think it's actually easy to make BBSing a little more private, that would make it difficult (perhaps impossible) for search engines, and the general public from seeing your site.

The technology that can make that happen is something like zerotier - where every BBS in a "network" sets up zerotier before setting up their BBS. In fact, applying to join a network could be the trigger to "add you" to the zerotier network, where you provide your zerotier ID on the application. (I've actually have this functionality in clrghouz, although its not fully complete.)

Zerotier provides two types of private networks - public/private, and while public is not really "public", it just means folks can join themselves and cannot be removed. (private networks on the otherhand require somebody to approve your access - and they can reject it later).

I've bought this up in the past, and some didnt like the "governing" control of the zerotier admin removing folks - but if it was linked to being a member of the FTN network, if you were removed from the network, that would be the only time the "ZC" would logically remove you from zerotier as well.

Personally, I would prefer it - and TQW has run zerotier successfully for a year or two between the hubs, so we know it works well. Firewalling could also be implemented "in the network" that would provide "some" confidence that members of the network didnt hack your own network (but obviously you could add additional firewall rules if you wanted).

The other plus with zerotier, is everybody can be assigned a "static" address, so even if you have a dynamic public IPv4 address, your zerotier address remains static.

I run it on hub 3 (and soon clrghouz), so if anybody wants to play with it, let me know.



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