Subj : hackers
To   : Oli
From : Taphophile
Date : Tue Jan 17 2023 10:01 pm

  Re: hackers
  By: Oli to Exodus on Sun Jan 15 2023 03:03 pm

 > But what I wanted to express: why should I hand out my email address and
 > phone number, before I can see anything of the BBS? Are you willing to do
 > SMS verification for every website you visit? A stupid guest account is not
 > at all useless.
I agree in this sense. Back in the days of yesteryear when BBS's required names, phone numbers and more personalizd information, being doxxed wasn't nearly the threat that it is today. With just a little bit of information you can literally determine the color of someone's front door in just a few minutes. The login sequence could be generally updated for todays standards, but will it ever be? We'd be hard pressed to see kind of update like that across boards, unless one currently active BBS software does something like that, and you never call another software board or lesser bit board again. Best bet is to just give out fake or incorrect information. I don't think our friendly local Sysops are out to destroy our lives! Not to mention it is a cakewalk to save your login information in your telnet client and just ALT your way right in. It's painless to login.

-Tap
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