Bridge Security

[Raptor]

Rbcp, can you make a forum that is only visible to certain users, for discussion of Room numbers to use on the voice bridge? With all the stuff thats been going on in 752, it would be nice to have a secure place to post information we don't want PDX to get at.

[matthewr]

I like that idea.  It's really annoying with pdxusa and all the immature flooders/toners/soundboarders in 752... it makes it hard to have a real conversation.

The only problem I see is that there might be a problem with the board being too exclusive...

[Raptor]

If a user wants to join, they can just PM the mod of the board. Then if someone is causing trouble, they can be taken OUT of the people that are allowed to see the new rooms.

[JohnKerry]

Why don't you create something with PHP such as an access system that would allow people here to register and grab the latest room numbers.

[mr_doc]

Meat-phone could NEVER register under a different name and read those posts!

[rbcp]

I think the only way to ensure that your room is semi-private is to organize the secret room number amongst yourselves.  Figure out which room will be it and share it with each other via PMs.  You can't expect a public bridge to be very secure though.  I do agree that we should have a mid-level secret board for talking about sort of private things.  Maybe something that people with 100 posts get access to?

[Raptor]

That might be good, or better yet, make it 1000 Posts

[Tachyon]

Make it however many posts I have now.

[Nod]

Six hundred and sixty posts to get into the cone of silence it is. That works for me because I have 4 more posts than Tachyon at the moment anyhow.

[trevelyn]

nah, i felt like an ass asking for a "secret" ext number.  thanks for expanding on this topic.  This would be nice to have, but i think since we have university style t-shirts we must put someone through a frat style initiation!  ban them for 3 days, prank call them, make em lose their job, make them wait by a payphone all night and randomly call it to check, you know - phone loser university initiation.  wow, that sounds fun "Phone Loser University"

[matthewr]

Maybe something that people with 100 posts get access to?

I don't think we should base it on the number of posts because there are people that visit the conference bridge often and don't post much on the forums.

That might be good, or better yet, make it 1000 Posts

1000 posts? Are you kidding?

I think I have a better idea: How about a conference bridge where certain people have the ability to kick callers out of the conference?  I have a conference bridge hosted on voxeo and as long as I'm logged into the application debugger when that person logs in, I can kick people out of the conference.  The number to the bridge is (360) 519-5457. (Call it from a phone that you don't mind revealing the number to because I can see it.)

If anyone knows of a better way to implement or improve this idea, or if anyone knows of a service out there that does a much better job, let me know.

[M-26-7]

That's me saying 'Newb' in font visible by only those with 100 posts or more.

[Tachyon]

Has anybody here ever used Ventrilo?

[johnnyhacker]

nah, i felt like an ass asking for a "secret" ext number.  thanks for expanding on this topic.  This would be nice to have, but i think since we have university style t-shirts we must put someone through a frat style initiation!  ban them for 3 days, prank call them, make em lose their job, make them wait by a payphone all night and randomly call it to check, you know - phone loser university initiation.  wow, that sounds fun "Phone Loser University"

Now I am starting to remember what we used to do on the old Defcon Vocie Bridge... PhoneTag. And I think PDXUSA should experience the PLA's First initiation in to the MeatPhone Hall of Pranks. Just a thought.

[a2z_420]

Has anybody here ever used Ventrilo?

I've used vent before with a bunch of losers from http://www.Tibia.com, actually I still have it on my comp.