Subj : Re: Hacker making all Mystic nodes "BUSY"
To   : Gandalf
From : Alonzo
Date : Tue Feb 14 2023 10:29 am

 Ga> Greetings and Salutations!  I am having an issue with a hacker who trys
 Ga> to crack my system password eventually making all of my nodes busy so
 Ga> that users cannot login.  When I periodically check Nodespy, all three
 Ga> of my nodes show a couple of system password attempts (in asterisk form)
 Ga> and a third prompt and the screen is hung.  I have to Alt(K)ick each
 Ga> node 2 or three times until it autobans the IP address.  Is there

I have the same problem, but not with the the screen getting hung up. 24 hours a day, every ten minutes or so, someone is trying to hack my board. I don't want people to automatically get to my login screen, and I want to slow these morons down a bit so this is what I did. I set up the board so that it is ANSI-only. Then I edited the prompt that usually asks if you want ANSI or ASCII to this menu:

It says...
PLEASE READ CAREFULLY - This is a menu, not a command line. Typing random sh*t will do nothing. Slapping your ENTER key will do nothing. Your bots will do nothing. See that number 1 on your keyboard? Poke it! Go ahead, poke it! What are you waiting for? You have four chances to get this right.

[1} Yes, I want to use this BBS
[0} No,disconnect

This slows them down a bit.

.... I know a good tagline when I steal one!

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