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From: manes@marob.MASA.COM (Steve Manes)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: Bulletin Board Software Needed
Message-ID: <149@marob.MASA.COM>
Date: 24 Feb 88 10:13:53 GMT
References: <901@ut-emx.UUCP>
Organization: 18th Street Construction Company (ESCC). NY, NY
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From article <901@ut-emx.UUCP>, by emp@ut-emx.UUCP (naDev~tlhIngan~putulu):
> ...you've GOT to be kidding!!!!
> ....Try WWIV instead. At least it's got the SOURCE CODE!
> ....can Dopus or any oter say that?

Unfortunately, that software title might be more descriptive than the
author intended.  Having BBS software source in hand is convenient for
local site modifications but it's equally attractive to the runny-nosed
Snidelys out there.  The only thing that could be more irresistable to
junior terrorist mindsets than the knowledge of zapping the hard disks
of possibly thousands of people is gaining first-person access to those
machines, which is exactly what happened here a few years ago when a
hacked copy of the RBBS-PC source made the rounds.

Unless someone is a fairly sharp programmer and has hours to spare scanning
source code for disk bombs and password collectors, I'd stick with binaries
of protected source code for anything that would allow unknown outside
users to have (possibly) complete access to my operating system.