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#THE BBS ZINE#
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#BY MHJ#
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#Issue 5 - For the week of 9/29/19 - 10/5 #
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########################### #Date Published - 10/06/19 #
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#New Energy#
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Index:
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Foreward
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Alley Cat
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ALTERANT
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Music and BBSes
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Security and Privacy and BBSes
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Game of the Week
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Music of the Moment
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Links
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Outro
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Contact
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Next Issue Preview
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#Foreward#
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I’ve been thinking about BBSes more, and the more I grow to understand
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them, the more I like them. They truly were the beginning of
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independant, local and autonomous net communities. Recently I heard that
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the US government is asking that they put backdoors into the encryption
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of Facebook’s and Whatsapp’s messaging system. I think that’s a huge
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privacy violation… if they start at those big sites, what’s to say that
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they won’t ask the same for every encrypted system? Not only would it
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would be bad privacy-wise if they did that, but they would be more
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liable to shoot themselves in the foot by doing so, because black hat
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hackers would probably make short work of the backdoors and sell those
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exploits to the highest bidder on the market.
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In any case, I feel BBSes, if they got more secure, would be immune to
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these sorts of things, simply because they’re not as well-known
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anymore.I know that many BBSes continue to use telnet as their primary
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method of connection due to nostalgic reasons, but maybe, because of the
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above topic, they should transition to more secure alternatives of
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connection and encrypt user and system data. I hope any BBS owners
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reading this will consider implementing it.
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#Alley Cat#
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I like the name and the art for this BBS. It didn’t seem to have much in
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the way of files or games, but that’s ok. Let’s give them some new users
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and make a huge community there!
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[Main menu]
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[Games]
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[Files]
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#CONNECTION METHODS#
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telnet://alleycat.synchro.net
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#ALTERANT #
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ALTERANT wouldn’t let me finish registration and that sucks, because I
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was really looking forward to trying it out… if you know where to get in
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touch with the SysOp and let them know that registering doesn’t work,
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drop me a line!
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#CONNECTION METHODS#
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telnet://alterant.leenooks.net
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#Music and BBSes#
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I personally have never heard music playing from a BBS, but I do know
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that on the older systems that BBSes ran on, music was a highly praised
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feature. The C64 and Amiga are famous machines that boasted impressive
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sound chips, so I can see much of the BBS scene devoted to music created
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on those.
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If anyone knows more about this topic, please send me something, I would
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love to hear from you about it!
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#Security and Privacy and BBSes#
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As I stated in the foreward, most BBSes are, at this point, lax about
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encryption, security and privacy. I am not suggesting that BBSes become
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glorified Unix shells, just that more should care about these sorts of
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things.
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#Links#
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Ars Technica’s article on the Facebook backdoor:
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https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2019/10/the-broken-record-why-barrs-call-against-end-to-end-encryption-is-nuts/
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The mod archive: https://modarchive.org/
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#Game of the Week#
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No game this week, but expect one next week!
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#Music of the Moment#
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The Epic Commodore C64 SID Collection - 11 Hours of C64 Music:
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U9Racui9jJI
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#Outro#
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I hope you enjoyed this issue of the BBS zine, and if you have any
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suggestions on how I can improve, see below to drop me a line!
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#Contact#
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For questions, concerns, comments and anything else, please contact me
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at the following: mhj@sdf.org
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Thank you.
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#Next Issue#
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BBSes:
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Amateur Radio BBS
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Amiga Frontier
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Columns:
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Null: A DOS BBS Zine
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BBS Real Time Chatting
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File Sharing and BBSes
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Game of the Week
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Music of the Moment
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Links
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####################
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#TRANSMISSION ENDED#
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