Re: Fidonet and today
  By: Sean Dennis to Sampsa Laine on Thu Feb 24 2011 12:12 am

 > I just let pfSense do the work for me.  No problems and anyone who thinks 
 > they're going to bust a box with telnet is either stupid or desperate.  I've
 > never had a problems in the decade or so of running a telnet-capable BBS of 
 > someone trying to hack into it via the telnet port.

I'm more worried about someone smashing the stack somehow and getting the
Synchronet web server to run commands. I don't know if anyone involved with
Synchronet has done an audit of the code.

--kW

      kurt weiske ³ kweiske{at}realitycheckbbs.org
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