I've heard of a new BBS being made available from The Quantum Wormhole system being made available to the world via the TOR Anonymizing Network. Basically, its a test-bed system to see how BBSes might work on TOR. Apparently it is very slow, but still functioning. Does anyone think that there is a future of BBSes on anonymizing networks? Is SSH good enough or should people consider migrating to the darknet?

Cheers!
-warmfuzzy

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I've heard of a new BBS being made available from The Quantum Wormhole system being made available to the world via the TOR Anonymizing
Network. Basically, its a test-bed system to see how BBSes might work
on TOR. Apparently it is very slow, but still functioning. Does anyone think that there is a future of BBSes on anonymizing networks? Is SSH good enough or should people consider migrating to the darknet?

2oFB is also available over TOR DARKNET; kiyv6lcxpfosvpl6fsaurer5qpegu2oljlwhj6byzrmhagl72ggzykyd.onion

It's not TOO slow; just spin up Tails OS, whonix OR load TOR in systemd and
run syncterm thru torsocks, like;

$ torsocks syncterm

I invite users to checkout 2oFB over TOR - it completely secures YOU from being known.



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Hello paulie420!

** On Thursday 08.06.23 - 21:20, paulie420 wrote to warmfuzzy:

2oFB is also available over TOR DARKNET; kiyv6lcxpfosvpl6fsaurer5qpegu2oljlwhj6byzrmhagl72ggzykyd.onion

Loading it in TOR browser doesn't work for me.

"Unable to connect" ...
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2oFB is also available over TOR DARKNET; kiyv6lcxpfosvpl6fsaurer5qpegu2oljlwhj6byzrmhagl72ggzykyd.onion

Loading it in TOR browser doesn't work for me.

Oh; well, its the actual BBS.

install tor (and torsocks if using Ubuntu; it doesn't come packaged.)
load the tor.service
run your terminal software thru torsocks;
torsocks syncterm
torsocks netrunner
add .onion link to a 2oFB DarkNet directory entry
PROF1T.



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Oh; well, its the actual BBS.

install tor (and torsocks if using Ubuntu; it doesn't come packaged.)
load the tor.service
run your terminal software thru torsocks;
torsocks syncterm
torsocks netrunner
add .onion link to a 2oFB DarkNet directory entry
PROF1T.

Ah sweet, very nice, installing torsocks now and will test it out when I finally have time tomorrow night. What all is/was involved in getting20 setup with a darknet address?

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Ah sweet, very nice, installing torsocks now and will test it out when I finally have time tomorrow night. What all is/was involved in getting20 setup with a darknet address?

Not super hard; and all the info was from MeaTLoTioN, as always - lol, ... I think I have a .txt file around here somewhere:

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TQW now has a tor address: tfrsgnjhf4lywcl34qrcwiqvybuq46lhs5pltzkwlsghziumcsbfeoyd.onion

you can use this for both telnet and ssh on the usual ports =)

if you run linux, and don't yet have any idea how to use tor to connect, quickand dirty guide is as follows:

sudo apt update && sudo apt install tor

torsocks telnet
tfrsgnjhf4lywcl34qrcwiqvybuq46lhs5pltzkwlsghziumcsbfeoyd.onion

if you wanna use syncterm, you can use torsocks syncterm which will load syncterm and send all traffic through your new tor proxy

Note: none of your non tor addresses will work while using the tor proxy(obviously) so just make a new address entry for the tor version and just use that

Note2: bear in mind, due to the way TOR works, expect the connection to be slower than you normally experience.

Have fun, and catch y'all in tgt if not before.

-----on the bbs host machine, I just installed the tor app via
sudo apt install tor

then edited the /etc/tor/torrc file expose the ports for the bbs I want, i.e.telnet and ssh, then restart the tor service

sudo service tor stop && sudo service tor start

(restart didn't seem to reload the config (nice one systemd:P))

your onion address is found in /var/lib/tor/other_hidden_service/hostname file in the torrc file, look for HiddenServicePort section, then just uncomment/addlines like this;

HiddenServicePort 23 127.0.0.1:23

127.0.0.1 is the localhost address, which is where the tor proxy is, so it wouldn't log anything other than that, and to be honest, would probably be better not to log

a nice touch I figured out though, is you could expose say port 23, but have it use 127.0.0.1:2323 as the actual port it exposes, so you could add another telnet server in mystic just for tor, and anyone using that it would show up as the tor telnet service in the logs

---setting a new mystic ssh/telnet to log TOR connections:

-----so I expose 23 and 45022 over tor, and they redirect locally to 2323 (telnet) and 2222 (ssh)

I have bound those ports in the mis cfg to 127.0.0.1 only also, just so no one else can use them from other locations and in my torrc file

HiddenServicePort 23 127.0.0.1:2323
HiddenServicePort 45022 127.0.0.1:2222

I also added 127.* to the /mystic/data/allowlist.txt file so that it doesn't ban 127.0.0.0
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Easy peasy.



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Not super hard; and all the info was from MeaTLoTioN, as always - lol,
... I think I have a .txt file around here somewhere:

I knew you had one (lol!) thanks p420 mucho appreciated.

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... Calling me wrong does not make you right

--- Mystic BBS v1.12 A49 2023/04/30 (Linux/64)
* Origin: The Underground (700:100/55)

Not super hard; and all the info was from MeaTLoTioN, as always - lol ... I think I have a .txt file around here somewhere:

I knew you had one (lol!) thanks p420 mucho appreciated.

Yessir; I can help anyone who wants to set this up if those instructions are confusled.



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