Re: Yet another 2oFB apology. :/
By: Dumas Walker to paulie420 on Mon Nov 03 2025 08:23 am

isnt kevin mitnick famous?

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Re: Yet another 2oFB apology. :/
By: Dumas Walker to paulie420 on Mon Nov 03 2025 08:23 am

isnt kevin mitnick famous?

Apparently so, but not to me. ;)


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isnt kevin mitnick famous?

"Free Kevin!"

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isnt kevin mitnick famous?

Apparently so, but not to me. ;)

He was quite popular with people in the phreaking scene.

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Re: Re: Yet another 2oFB apology.
By: neoshock to Dumas Walker on Sun Dec 07 2025 23:03:54

isnt kevin mitnick famous?

Apparently so, but not to me. ;)

He was quite popular with people in the phreaking scene.

So I have been told, and that would explain why I had never heard of him until someone used that alias to muck about on paulie's BBS. ;)
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On 08 Dec 2025 at 08:51a, Dumas Walker pondered and said...

Re: Re: Yet another 2oFB apology.
By: neoshock to Dumas Walker on Sun Dec 07 2025 23:03:54

He was quite popular with people in the phreaking scene.

So I have been told, and that would explain why I had never heard of him until someone used that alias to muck about on paulie's BBS. ;)

I met him once; I bet I still have his "lock pick set" business
card somewhere.

He was very good at social engineering, but he wasn't a particularly
technical person.

He passed away a few years ago; cancer. Sadly, his wife was
pregnant with his unborn child at the time.

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So I have been told, and that would explain why I had never heard of him until someone used that alias to muck about on paulie's BBS. ;)

I met him once; I bet I still have his "lock pick set" business
card somewhere.

Nice!

He passed away a few years ago; cancer. Sadly, his wife was
pregnant with his unborn child at the time.

That is sad. :(


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He was very good at social engineering, but he wasn't a particularly technical person.

When Shimomura or whoever it was released the realtime captures of Kevin's sessions in his systems, there were SOO MANY typos and bad commands and stumbling around like an idiot. That's when I knew for sure :).

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On 11 Dec 2025 at 01:35a, phigan pondered and said...

He was very good at social engineering, but he wasn't a particularly technical person.

When Shimomura or whoever it was released the realtime captures of
Kevin's sessions in his systems, there were SOO MANY typos and bad commands and stumbling around like an idiot. That's when I knew for sure :).

Yup. That was Tsutomu Shimomura.

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On 03 Nov 2025 at 12:53a, apam pondered and said...

Maybe the oneliners needs to be strengthened a bit to validate the from field with who the message is actually from? I don't know who wrote the original mystic mod (i think it might have been gryphon?), but I think it would be fairly easy to do and maintain backward compatability.

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On 03 Nov 2025 at 10:30a, Exodus pondered and said...

Never heard of them.

This does beg the question -- why would someone go to all that trouble

People are morons.

They're the worst.

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On 03 Nov 2025 at 06:04p, paulie420 pondered and said...

I just put s255 in to only let me post. I won't but that definitely stops anyone else.

If an s255 for post on FSX_DAT, will the IBBS oneliners .mps be able to post in that base???

No, it would not allow users without proper access to save the message. They can run the app if the read access allows them read the message.

So to make the app usable for the general user, you must make the message area accessable too. However, one option is to limit the user's ability to LIST the message base. If they can't list or select it outside of the app, then they won't be able to write a message to it. Now, if somebody wrote a message in an offline message reader and uploaded an qwk packet to it, that might be a way to get around the security. But I don't think that will work either, as Mystic should not copy the qwk message to a message area that the user does not have post access to.

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If an s255 for post on FSX_DAT, will the IBBS oneliners .mps be able post in that base???

No, it would not allow users without proper access to save the message. They can run the app if the read access allows them read the message.

Thanks for this; I'd already set the POST to s20g2 - but yea, I think my settings are ironed out. :P Appreciate the explanation, tho - from a VET!

one option is to limit the user's ability to LIST the message base.

Thanks thanks thanks. :P



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