DEEPNET, a browser based hacking sim. No download, you open a URL and your sitting at a terminal. Systems-driven, reactive world, AI-powered NPCs, the whole thing. Access Peacemaker's post on Reddit here including how to access:

https://www.reddit.com/r/Demoscene/s/VJysyCYpYW
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Re: x-news: DEEPNET, a browser hackign sim
By: Rob McGee to All on Tue Mar 17 2026 04:29 pm

DEEPNET, a browser based hacking sim. No download, you open a URL and your sitting at a terminal. Systems-driven, reactive world, AI-powered NPCs, the whole thing. Access Peacemaker's post on Reddit here including how to

Not really bbs news, but had to post due to the coolness of it. Reminds me of Telehack.
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On 17 Mar 26 16:47:34, Rob Mcgee said the following to All:

DEEPNET, a browser based hacking sim. No download, you open a URL and sitting at a terminal. Systems-driven, reactive world, AI-powered NPCs the whole thing. Access Peacemaker's post on Reddit here including how

Not really bbs news, but had to post due to the coolness of it. Reminds me Telehack.

I'm glad you got a momentary thrill from sharing this while we all got a wristslapping from Andrew for being off-topic about the certification scam.

Nick

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Re: Re: x-news: DEEPNET, a browser hackign s
By: Nick Andre to Rob Mcgee on Tue Mar 17 2026 11:08 pm

DEEPNET, a browser based hacking sim. No download, you open a URL
and sitting at a terminal. Systems-driven, reactive world,
AI-powered NPCs the whole thing. Access Peacemaker's post on Reddit
here including how

Not really bbs news, but had to post due to the coolness of it. Reminds
me Telehack.

I'm glad you got a momentary thrill from sharing this while we all got a wristslapping from Andrew for being off-topic about the certification scam.

Apologies for the off-topic post, 100% on me. My issue is i get in a rush and Fido does have strict policy.

Will move the my rss cross posts to another FTN where its not as strict due to the fact I 100% know I'll do it again! <g>

Again, my apologies.
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To: Nick Andre
Re: Re: x-news: DEEPNET, a browser hackign s
By: Nick Andre to Rob Mcgee on Tue Mar 17 2026 11:08 pm

From Newsgroup: FidoNet.BBS_CARNIVAL

On 17 Mar 26 16:47:34, Rob Mcgee said the following to All:

DEEPNET, a browser based hacking sim. No download, you open a URL
and sitting at a terminal. Systems-driven, reactive world,
AI-powered NPCs the whole thing. Access Peacemaker's post on Reddit
here including how

Not really bbs news, but had to post due to the coolness of it. Reminds
me Telehack.

I'm glad you got a momentary thrill from sharing this while we all got a wristslapping from Andrew for being off-topic about the certification scam. > > Nick

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Well it wasn't really off topic. It was bbs related.
Andrew is sean's bitch anyways. You know he was told to post that.
"Andrew run micronet! don't run micronet! give it back to me! andrew run micronet! andrew run bbs carnival! give it back to me! andrew run bbs Carnival!"

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To: Rob McGee
Re: Re: x-news: DEEPNET, a browser hackign s
By: Rob McGee to Nick Andre on Tue Mar 17 2026 11:24 pm

From Newsgroup: FidoNet.BBS_CARNIVAL

Re: Re: x-news: DEEPNET, a browser hackign s
By: Nick Andre to Rob Mcgee on Tue Mar 17 2026 11:08 pm

DEEPNET, a browser based hacking sim. No download, you open a URL
and sitting at a terminal. Systems-driven, reactive world,
AI-powered NPCs the whole thing. Access Peacemaker's post on Reddit
here including how

Not really bbs news, but had to post due to the coolness of it. Reminds > RM>> me Telehack.

I'm glad you got a momentary thrill from sharing this while we all got a > NA> wristslapping from Andrew for being off-topic about the certification
scam.

Apologies for the off-topic post, 100% on me. My issue is i get in a rush and > Fido does have strict policy.

Will move the my rss cross posts to another FTN where its not as strict due to the fact I 100% know I'll do it again! <g>

Again, my apologies.
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There's an ads sub.

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Hello Jas!

18 Mar 26 02:32, you wrote to Nick Andre:

Well it wasn't really off topic. It was bbs related.
Andrew is sean's bitch anyways. You know he was told to post that. "Andrew run micronet! don't run micronet! give it back to me! andrew
run micronet! andrew run bbs carnival! give it back to me! andrew run
bbs Carnival!"

If you have any issues with moderator decisions or actions, NetMail is the proper place to address them, not in this echo. You are just demonstrating, as usual, that you don't know as much as you think you do.

Andrew

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Re: Re: x-news: DEEPNET, a browser hackign s
By: Jas Hud to Rob McGee on Wed Mar 18 2026 02:33 am

Will move the my rss cross posts to another FTN where its not as strict due
to the fact I 100% know I'll do it again! <g>

There's an ads sub.

Exactly.. but thinking it though, I only started posting on FTN/QWK because one guy asked on discord. Fact is, its not really needed. RSS is super easy to pull w/ apps for everything including dos.

Also, a few sites scrape it so you can view it via the web at IPTIA and/or sysops-finest.org.
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To: Andrew Leary
Re: x-news: DEEPNET, a browser hackign s
By: Andrew Leary to Jas Hud on Wed Mar 18 2026 08:48 am

From Newsgroup: FidoNet.BBS_CARNIVAL

Hello Jas!

18 Mar 26 02:32, you wrote to Nick Andre:

Well it wasn't really off topic. It was bbs related.
Andrew is sean's bitch anyways. You know he was told to post that. "Andrew run micronet! don't run micronet! give it back to me! andrew
run micronet! andrew run bbs carnival! give it back to me! andrew run bbs Carnival!"

If you have any issues with moderator decisions or actions, NetMail is the proper place to address them, not in this echo.

Why would i netmail you? Do I LOOK like I like talking to retards?

You are just demonstrating,
as usual, that you don't know as much as you think you do.

Andrew

The truth hurts, doesn't it.
As usual, you are a stooge for Sean Dennis.

How am I wrong?

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Exactly.. but thinking it though, I only started posting on FTN/QWK because one guy asked on discord. Fact is, its not really needed. RSS is super easy pull w/ apps for everything including dos.

Speaking of which ... I just noticed a TON of sites ripped my links from www.rgbbs.info .... was looking at a-net and I have archived sites of say lord legacy and such ... I saw it said "LORD - archived site" like I have posted, and it was the SAME day/year of the wayback machine I have.

Made me chuckle a bit. Glad people are looking at the site. :)

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Re: Re: x-news: DEEPNET, a browser hackign s
By: T.J. Mcmillen to Rob Mcgee on Thu Mar 19 2026 08:32 pm

Speaking of which ... I just noticed a TON of sites ripped my links from www.rgbbs.info .... was looking at a-net and I have archived sites of say lord legacy and such ... I saw it said "LORD - archived site" like I have posted, and it was the SAME day/year of the wayback machine I have.

I've been doing the same thing on my door page for years: https://conchaos.synchro.net/doors.html

I also auto-validate my links nightly, and if I notice a site has been offline for a long time, I replace the URL with an archived one. That's how I found out Sunrise Doors folded like 2 months after the fact.

In any case, it's more likely StingRay found the info from my site since we're compadres in this hobby. Not everything is about you :P

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On 19 Mar 26 20:32, T.J. Mcmillen said the following to Rob Mcgee:

Speaking of which ... I just noticed a TON of sites ripped my links from www.rgbbs.info .... was looking at a-net and I have archived sites of say l

I had to move my website back to OVH because its getting slammed with bots, AI models and what I suspect is someone running a program to mooch every stinkin file off the site. Doesn't matter if I rate-limit. If there was some way to blacklist entire ASN's or by geo-IP it would solve a lot... but not all.

At this point, even if I took everything down and just left the basic ZC1 stuff the site would still get reamed with crap.

"We can't have nice things".

Nick

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On 20 Mar 2026, Nick Andre said the following...

On 19 Mar 26 20:32, T.J. Mcmillen said the following to Rob Mcgee:

Speaking of which ... I just noticed a TON of sites ripped my links fr www.rgbbs.info .... was looking at a-net and I have archived sites of

I had to move my website back to OVH because its getting slammed with bots, AI models and what I suspect is someone running a program to mooch every stinkin file off the site. Doesn't matter if I rate-limit. If
there was some way to blacklist entire ASN's or by geo-IP it would
solve a lot... but not all.

give "Anubis" a try?

https://github.com/TecharoHQ/anubis

"This program is designed to help protect the small internet from the endless storm of requests that flood in from AI companies. Anubis is as lightweight as possible to ensure that everyone can afford to protect the communities closest to them."

duno how "close to you" you feel this place is hehe

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On 20 Mar 26 17:48:55, Alexander Grotewohl said the following to Nick Andre:

I had to move my website back to OVH because its getting slammed with bots, AI models and what I suspect is someone running a program to moo

give "Anubis" a try?

Thanks for the suggestion but the website is on a hosted Windows server.

If I had a /29 subnet at home there is a solution involving Pfsense that I've considered which could in theory solve most of the problems.

Nick

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Hello Nick!

20 Mar 26 15:37, you wrote to T.J. Mcmillen:

I had to move my website back to OVH because its getting slammed with bots, AI models and what I suspect is someone running a program to
mooch every stinkin file off the site. Doesn't matter if I rate-limit.
If there was some way to blacklist entire ASN's or by geo-IP it would solve a lot... but not all.

This is how I block by ASN on linux (Just giving you the info, not going into Linux/WIN etc wars).

Note: The for i in.... is all one line, with upto the ending ;

ipset -N unifiedlayer hash:net

for i in $(whois -h whois.radb.net -- '-i origin AS15169' | grep "^route:" | cut -d ":" -f2 |
sed -e 's/^[ \t]*//' | sort -n -t . -k 1,1 -k 2,2 -k 3,3 -k 4,4 |
cut -d ":" -f2 | sed 's/$//') ;

do ipset -exist -A unifiedlayer "$i"
done

for i in $(whois -h whois.radb.net -- '-i origin AS46606' | grep "^route:" | cut -d ":" -f2 |
sed -e 's/^[ \t]*//' | sort -n -t . -k 1,1 -k 2,2 -k 3,3 -k 4,4 |
cut -d ":" -f2 | sed 's/$//') ;

do ipset -exist -A unifiedlayer "$i"
done


iptables -I INPUT -p tcp --destination-port 25 -m set --match-set unifiedlayer src -j DROP






Stephen


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On 21 Mar 26 10:53:52, Stephen Walsh said the following to Nick Andre:

bots, AI models and what I suspect is someone running a program to mooch every stinkin file off the site. Doesn't matter if I rate-limit. If there was some way to blacklist entire ASN's or by geo-IP it would solve a lot... but not all.

This is how I block by ASN on linux (Just giving you the info, not going in Linux/WIN etc wars).

Thanks, a similiar concept exists for Powershell.

I'd rather block things before it hits the server...

Nick

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Hello Stephen,

21 Mar 26 10:53, you wrote to Nick Andre:

for i in $(whois -h whois.radb.net -- '-i origin AS15169' | grep
"^route:" | cut -d ":" -f2 | sed -e 's/^[ \t]*//' | sort -n -t . -k
1,1 -k 2,2 -k 3,3 -k 4,4 | cut -d ":" -f2 | sed 's/$//') ;

You might try splitting that big line by using \:

for i in $(whois -h whois.radb.net -- '-i origin AS15169' \
| grep "route:" | cut -d ":" -f2 | sed -e 's/^[ \t]*//' \
| sort -n -t . -k 1,1 -k 2,2 -k 3,3 -k 4,4 \
| cut -d ":" -f2 | sed 's/$//') ;

That makes things much easier to read and all of that parses into a single line.

-- Sean

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Hello Nick,

20 Mar 26 20:40, you wrote to Stephen Walsh:

I'd rather block things before it hits the server...

snort might do what you want. For my BBS and its web server, I have a stringent iptables firewall and fail2ban as pfSense does not monitor open ports at all itself.

I am wont to do things the hard way at times involving networking...

-- Sean

... Incoming fire has the right of way.
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On 20 Mar 26 22:29:33, Sean Dennis said the following to Nick Andre:

I'd rather block things before it hits the server...

snort might do what you want. For my BBS and its web server, I have a stringent iptables firewall and fail2ban as pfSense does not monitor open ports at all itself.

Thats what I'm leaning towards...

Nick

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Hello Nick,

21 Mar 26 00:07, you wrote to me:

Thats what I'm leaning towards...

Be on the lookout for a netmail from me soon.

-- Sean

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compadres in this hobby. Not everything is about you :P

I dunno, found it VERY odd it was the same day. There are lots of days archived there and it just happened to be some random one I picked, as the day before and after (day captured), looked the same.

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To: T.J. Mcmillen
Re: Re: x-news: DEEPNET, a browser hackign s
By: T.J. Mcmillen to Rob Mcgee on Thu Mar 19 2026 08:32 pm

From Newsgroup: FidoNet.BBS_CARNIVAL

Exactly.. but thinking it though, I only started posting on FTN/QWK
because one guy asked on discord. Fact is, its not really needed. RSS is super easy pull w/ apps for everything including dos.

Speaking of which ... I just noticed a TON of sites ripped my links from www.rgbbs.info .... was looking at a-net and I have archived sites of say lord legacy and such ... I saw it said "LORD - archived site" like I have posted, and it was the SAME day/year of the wayback machine I have.

Made me chuckle a bit. Glad people are looking at the site. :)

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Yeah but those always come from another place.
for example that lordlegacy archive is probably from me. i got it from Preslar. Same with bbsfiles. I got that from the source(not the website).

People have taken my stuff all the time and not given credit when i put work Into it like organizing or fixing problems.

So if you put it out there, people are going to rip if off and stamp their name on it. That's why pcmike from thebbs.org stopped giving people full access to download stuff off his ftp server. the darktech.org guy took it and made a Clone site. Pcmike put a lot of work into building his file archive and spent Money calling all over the country.



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To: Craig Hendricks
Re: Re: x-news: DEEPNET, a browser hackign s
By: Craig Hendricks to T.J. Mcmillen on Fri Mar 20 2026 01:36 pm

From Newsgroup: FidoNet.BBS_CARNIVAL

Re: Re: x-news: DEEPNET, a browser hackign s
By: T.J. Mcmillen to Rob Mcgee on Thu Mar 19 2026 08:32 pm

Speaking of which ... I just noticed a TON of sites ripped my links from > TM> www.rgbbs.info .... was looking at a-net and I have archived sites of
say lord legacy and such ... I saw it said "LORD - archived site" like I > TM> have posted, and it was the SAME day/year of the wayback machine I have. >

I've been doing the same thing on my door page for years: https://conchaos.synchro.net/doors.html

I also auto-validate my links nightly, and if I notice a site has been offline for a long time, I replace the URL with an archived one. That's how I > found out Sunrise Doors folded like 2 months after the fact.

In any case, it's more likely StingRay found the info from my site since we're compadres in this hobby. Not everything is about you :P

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Oh you guys are just talking about LINKS and not files?

That's kinda petty. That's not the last version of the lordsite btw.
The last version had the link for 4.08 up at the top.

you guys should rip the site with httptrack and change the archive.org url so it shows the original site without the wayback header.

Anyways, same thing goes. You put it out there and people will "steal it" and stamp their name on it. Sysops are always in it for themselves.




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To: Alexander Grotewohl
Re: Re: x-news: DEEPNET, a browser hackign s
By: Alexander Grotewohl to Nick Andre on Fri Mar 20 2026 05:48 pm

From Newsgroup: FidoNet.BBS_CARNIVAL

On 20 Mar 2026, Nick Andre said the following...

On 19 Mar 26 20:32, T.J. Mcmillen said the following to Rob Mcgee:

Speaking of which ... I just noticed a TON of sites ripped my links fr www.rgbbs.info .... was looking at a-net and I have archived sites of

I had to move my website back to OVH because its getting slammed with bots, AI models and what I suspect is someone running a program to mooch > NA> every stinkin file off the site. Doesn't matter if I rate-limit. If
there was some way to blacklist entire ASN's or by geo-IP it would solve a lot... but not all.

give "Anubis" a try?

https://github.com/TecharoHQ/anubis

"This program is designed to help protect the small internet from the endless > storm of requests that flood in from AI companies. Anubis is as lightweight
as possible to ensure that everyone can afford to protect the communities closest to them."

duno how "close to you" you feel this place is hehe

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Well if you are going to have a server on the internet you should run it
with some muscle. Years ago i moved all my bbses and websites to ovh. It's just stupid to host stuff at home. A watchful eye is helpful for a lot of attacks, I've tried all kinds of filtering options. There's always something That's going to hit you day and night.

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To: Craig Hendricks
Re: Re: x-news: DEEPNET, a browser hackign s
By: Craig Hendricks to T.J. Mcmillen on Fri Mar 20 2026 01:36 pm

offline for a long time, I replace the URL with an archived one. That's how I > found out Sunrise Doors folded like 2 months after the fact.

In any case, it's more likely StingRay found the info from my site since we're compadres in this hobby. Not everything is about you :P

you two burro banditos should just create a mirror of the lordlegacy site Instead of just linking to archive.org's capture of the site.


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To: T.J. Mcmillen
Re: Re: x-news: DEEPNET, a browser hackign s
By: T.J. Mcmillen to Craig Hendricks on Sat Mar 21 2026 02:36 pm

From Newsgroup: FidoNet.BBS_CARNIVAL

compadres in this hobby. Not everything is about you :P

I dunno, found it VERY odd it was the same day. There are lots of days archived there and it just happened to be some random one I picked, as the day before and after (day captured), looked the same.

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After about 31 years in bbsing i'm always seeing these patterns.
Hey i have to have a bbs with 200 doorgames.
Hey i have to have a bbs with all the msg networks.
Hey I have to have a bbs with all the possible bbs files.
Hey now i have to have a website with all the bbs lnks.

Meanwhile 20 other guys are doing the same thing.

now there's almost no users and it's been like that for several years.
Are we in purgatory?



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