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TrippingBillies
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Food for thought Admin
#814448 - 08/13/02 06:46 AM (21 years, 9 months ago) |
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How to protect your BBS: Do NOT keep messages for more than 180 days. Because the way the law is written, messages less then 180 days old are afforded more protection then older messages. Therefore, to best protect your system purge, archive, or reload your message base about every 150 days or so. This seems silly but will make it harder (more red tape) for the government to issue a search warrant and inform the operator/subscriber of the service that a search will take place. Roberts is not clear on this issue, but his message is stated emphatically... you will be better protected if you roll over your message base sooner. Perhaps the best way to protect your BBS is to make it a private system. This means that you can not give "instant access" to callers (I know of very few underground boards that do this anyway) and you can not allow just anyone to be a member of your system. In other words, even if you make callers wait 24 hours to be validated before having access you need to make some distinctions about who you validate and who you do not. Your BBS needs to be a PRIVATE system and you need to take steps to enforce and proclaim this EXPECTED PRIVACY. One of the ways Roberts suggests doing so is placing a message like this in your welcome screen: "This BBS is a private system. Only private citizens who are not involved in government or law enforcement activities are authorized to use it. The users are not authorized to divulge any information gained from this system to any government agency or employee." Using this message, or one like it, will make it a criminal offense (under the ECPA, Electronic Communications Protection Act) for an FBI Agent or other government snoop to use your BBS. This article was obtained from Phrack.com
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Edited by TrippingBillies (08/13/02 07:02 AM)
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MechanicalMan
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*sigh* You know this is not the appropriate forum for this shit. Don?t be so obnoxious.
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Frog31337
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This belongs in security forum, or suggestions.
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Anno
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Could you please provide the direct link to this article? TY!
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DreaMaTrix
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Re: Food for thought Admin [Re: Anno]
#816838 - 08/14/02 05:46 AM (21 years, 9 months ago) |
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djfrog
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Re: Food for thought Admin [Re: DreaMaTrix]
#818803 - 08/15/02 05:50 PM (21 years, 9 months ago) |
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Phrack is pretty outdated. People who read that think they can still get free phone calls off a payphone if they hook up a 9V battery and some bubble gum to it. Not anymore, phone machine technology is really different now.
Edited by djfrog (08/15/02 05:51 PM)
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this is from the olden days before the www when to access a bulletein board you had to make a dial-up connection to the computer that hosted it. I'm sure the relevant laws have changed since then.
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GabbaDj
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Re: Food for thought Admin [Re: ]
#822754 - 08/17/02 04:13 AM (21 years, 9 months ago) |
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OOooh my gosh... a BBS post...
BBS is still the way to go. I think they have direct competition with FTP sites, they are pretty much the same but FTP lacks one MAJOR thing...
You cant play Trade Wars on an FTP site....
Hey PM me with the number to your BBS I wana check it out... Unless its in Canada.....
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Re: Food for thought Admin [Re: GabbaDj]
#829633 - 08/20/02 05:53 AM (21 years, 8 months ago) |
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lol i remember those boards, i used to get on one that had 0-day cracks for all the games. I was owning in commander keen.
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