Re: Fidonet and today
  By: Kurt Weiske to Sean Dennis on Thu Feb 24 2011 09:40 am

 >   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.

Yes, and as it is open source, others have performed periodic audits as well.

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