[SLL] telnet localhost

[Chuck Wolber]

On Thu, 14 Feb 2008, johnbaxterlists at mac.com wrote:

> 
> On Feb 14, 2008, at 9:23 AM, Chuck Wolber wrote:
> 
> > Yeah, I looked into those just before I started using SSH. Seemed 
> > weird to me to go to all of that trouble to secure a protocol like 
> > telnet. It's time to let telnet (and FTP) die a quiet death off on an 
> > ice flow somewhere.
> 
> Be careful what you wish for.  You're thinking of telnet, the way to get 
> a shell connection on another machine.

Yep. It's like netcat, but with some annoying control additions ;)


> But the protocol underlies a few little things like POP, IMAP, SMTP, 
> HTTP, LDAP, etc etc (almost anything that works over TCP rather than 
> UDP).  We really can't kill off that part.

Hmmmm, no. I'm not speaking of TCP, I'm talking about clear text shell 
connections.

..Chuck..

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