[Dxspider-support] Login and passwords REQUIRED to connect to CX2SA-8 DXSpider

[Mikel EA2CW]

Dear Rudy,

The answer is simple. If there is not the first, there will not the 2nd, 
3th,...

As far as more and more sysops start upgrading their versions, setting 
passwords, etc, the better and more secure the net will be.

When nodes' sysops start noticing were the trash come from, the network 
itself will evolve. When network users notice where the garbage comes 
from, they will choose to which server connect. They want to win the 
contest or confirm the new DXCC, no other worries.

Always will be options to make the system better, but as it is said the 
longest path starts with a small step.

Please imagine the following scenary:
- We keep the cluster net insecure
- There is a big contest on dxped
- The net is full with fake spots

Which will be pointed as guilty?
   The users?
   The final softwares used to connect to our servers?

Or the sysops for not taking needed actions in order to guarantee the 
quality of the network spots?

Don't go to the users saying that the client software doesn't implement 
passwords... or that there is old deadware that cannot support them and 
some sysops keep using them... or developers that don't want to include 
this on their programs...

Do start the journey. Otherwise we will keep suffering the same problems 
forever.

73, Mikel EA2CW | AE2CW

P.S. Thank you very much to all the developers who have contributed to 
the ham radio, specially to cluster network, unvaluable work done. But 
this recognition cannot stop us to improve.

El 7/2/25 a las 16:13, Rudy Bakalov via Dxspider-support escribió:
> I don't mean to be a jerk. I don't want to prove that I am right and 
> everyone is wrong. I truly mean well, which may not come across over email.
> 
> The elephant in the room question is: how are you going to ensure that 
> *ALL NODES*, first, second, third, etc. level, use passwords to connect 
> to each other? And to make it easier to answer, let's assume that we are 
> only focusing on the *511 spiders*. Keeping bad guys out of the network 
> requires *ALL NODES* to use passwords for peering. If sysops don't 
> bother running the most current version of DXS, why would they bother 
> implementing passwords?
> 
> I will honor any request to disconnect, no questions asked.
> 
> Rudy N2WQ
>