Hi JEff,

Jeff Bowman wrote in a message to Roy Witt:

> They can crash it. Someone has already shown how a netmail packet can be
> dropped on any system that might be in a route and the netmail will be
> sent to the system intended. No session or packet password required.
JB>  
JB> Yeah, one of the things I've started to notice with modern Fidonet
JB> is the relatively lax security model.  Back in the day, there was
JB> long distance to contend with, and your average Joe probably wasn't
JB> going to go calling around to other systems far away to cause
JB> trouble when it was on his dime. Local pranksters would be easier to
JB> track down.  And caller ID came into the picture eventually as well.
Agreed, and being pots only I still implement security procedures just as
we all did back a decade or more ago when I was involved. IN fact, my
primary uplink and i agree on that point.

FOr awhile I belonged to another fidonet technology network.  Had to badger
the coordinator of that net who was my feed to implement session and other
passwording. Imho in these days of internet connected systems security
schemes we have in place are even more necessary.

Regards,
           Richard
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