Subj : Re: FidoNet; Ken Kaplan - and t
To   : slacker
From : apam
Date : Fri Dec 13 2024 04:02 pm

 > That said, I'm sure the more your BBS host & port are out there on the
 > internet and the more popular it becomes, the more bots that will find
 > it and start trying stuff.

Maybe, but I doubt in that case they would be bots - although I suppose
with AI it might be a thing.. bots are really just looking for easy
targets with known exploits. A BBS, while quiet possibly exploitable
would require a bit of human interaction and fiddling to find the
exploits.

For things like smart TVs and routers that have exploits, they can scan
them down drop their payload and move on through the address space. A BBS
because of it's obscurity, not so much.

Oh, and I am in no way saying BBSes are secure because of that obscurity,
but rather less of a target to the kind of blanket searching bots. It
comes down to time I guess, while you could be fiddling around with a BBS
looking to break it, you could have already gained several unpactched
routers..

If your BBS does get quiet popular, then sure people might try to hack
in, but that's a different senario i think

Andrew

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