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ju, ju@heisec.de
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Re: Who in the world is still using telnet? 17 February 2009 09:35
Tin Can Phone wrote on 17 February 2009 09:12
> Is there any good reason to use telnet to access remote machine these
> days?
That's what I thought too.
But remember the fuzz about a vulnerability in Solaris telnetd only
two years ago? US-CERT even issued an alert about a worm exploiting
this:
> http://www.us-cert.gov/cas/techalerts/TA07-059A.html
So there must be some relevance in telnet still. I'd love to hear why
though...
bye, ju
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