Re: Apple //e Powered BBS Operational

[Lon Seidman <lonseidman@gmail.com>]

On Friday, January 18, 2013 6:33:50 PM UTC-5, Scott Alfter wrote:
> In article 
> IIRC, I ran my BBS on Warp Six for a while...don't recall it only supporting
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> numeric user IDs or having such a ridiculously short maximum password
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> length.  Then again, brute-forcing even a short password would've taken
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> forever at 2400 bps, especially since you'd need to dial back in after a few
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> failed attempts...

This is the public domain version so perhaps a commercial version had a little more security.  It definitely would take awhile to brute force it and I'd hate to disappoint the person who manages to break through.  There really isn't much to see :).

I'm sure back in the day of "elite" BBS's there was a lot of good stuff hiding behind those user access walls. Given the high price of storage and communications back in the day I can imagine some of these BBS systems costing quite a bit to get up and running.